The new species out of China is known to lock its prey away, alive but paralyzed, until its young have hatched.

IN autumn the grass-feeding larvæ of Tenthredopsis litterata Geoff. and T. nassata F. undergo an ecdysis prior to entering the soil at plant roots, where they remain as overwintering non-feeding ...

This is a 24-well plate containing honey bee larvae and pupae at various stages of development. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Dr Gavin Broad, Senior Curator of Hymenoptera, explains the gruesome phenomenon ... A butterfly egg is tiny, but wasps can still develop inside it. When a wasp larva finds itself nestled inside a ...

Parasitoid wasps, belonging to the family Hymenoptera, deprive their insect ... discs—adult tissue precursors—in the host fly larvae. By degrading these tissues, the IDDF-containing venoms ...

One path to eusociality in Hymenoptera is thought to start with solitary females engaging in simultaneous progressive provisioning — rearing multiple larvae of different ages at the same time ...

All Hymenoptera lay eggs that produce males if the egg is not ... are captured by yellowjacket workers and fed to the young yellowjacket larvae in the nest. 'My' wasp larvae then wait for the ...