Medicine & TechnologyEven when viewed as villains, wasps play essential roles in ecosystems and provide significant environmental benefits. Read the article to learn more about these insects.
Scientists are all set to release a parasitic wasp that will prevent the growing population of the destructive spotted wing drosophila. Read and learn more.
Science reports recently described the newly discovered insect called the Neuroterus Valhalla as not having the noteworthy distinction of being the first-ever species of its kind to be defined alongside its completely sequenced genome.
Biologists from the universities of Bristol, Exeter, and UCL recently found that wasps offer crucial support to their extended families by babysitting at neighboring nests.
The US Department of Agriculture, later this month, will officially admit defeat along one front of its fight against a distressing invasive insect, particularly a tree-killing beetle.
Over a 39-month period, invasive keyhole wasps, specifically known as the Pachodynerus nasidens at the Brisbane Airport" were reportedly responsible for the 93 cases of "fully blocked replica pitot probes."
Researchers from Rice University in Houston, Texas have just discovered a new species of gall wasp - one that lays its eggs in the galls of other wasps.