A tiny parasitic wasp turns the Tussock moth caterpillar into a living nursery, laying eggs that hatch and feed inside the host while it continues its daily life — unaware of its fate.

The numbers are staggering: mosquito-borne diseases are blamed for over 700,000 deaths every year, according to the World ...

Researchers on Kangaroo Island have been breeding and releasing millions of sterile Australian sheep blowflies in an attempt ...

Scientists have observed a new parasitic behavior between a wasp and a social species of spider, where the spider re-learned an ancestral behavior! Hosted by: Hank Green Thumbnail credit: ...

Scientists document a rare form of social parasitism in which invading queens weaponize chemistry and worker ants to dethrone ...

Carbohydrate metabolism influences the outcome of host-parasite relationships. This study shows that insect short ...

Some of nature's smallest predators are also the most disturbing, evolving ingenious ways to devour their prey while still ...

This video exposes the shocking parasitic process behind the jewel wasp’s alien-like reproduction. Scientists show how the ...

Parasitoids feed on other insects during some stage of their life cycle. Ichneumon wasps are body snatchers. With their long ...

While ant queen violence is well-known, scientists recently documented the first evidence of parasite-induced matricide ...