Adult citrus gall wasps lay eggs on the stems and bark of citrus trees during the warmer months. When the eggs hatch, the ...

Science finds its way into the most unexpected places. In this surprising case, it all began with the good eyesight of an eight-year-old boy, Hugo. The boy looked closely at a row ...

Leaves of endemic wiliwili riddled by Erythrina gall wasp damage are pictured on a tree on Kahoolawe in 2008. FOREST AND KIM STARR photo Reinforcements are being called to the front lines of a ...

Because the asexual adult wasps are extremely small, just ⅛ to ¼ inches long, you likely won't see them. However, if you cut ...

japonica injects venom and an egg into the host larva. The imaginal discs are degraded by venom proteins called IDDFs, which prevent the host from undergoing metamorphosis. The wasp larva consumes ...

Erythrina gall wasps are yellow 6- to 8-millimeter-long invasive pests. They create galls — swollen, tumor-like growths — in erythrina tree tissue that serve as cocoons for their larvae to mature.

Scientists went to Asia, EAB’s home, and found stingless wasps that feed on and kill ash borer eggs and larvae. The wasps do not attack humans. On Oct. 23 and Nov. 1, MDA staff found wasp larvae ...

The larvae belong to a type of wasp called parasitoids, whose young dine on the flesh of hosts their parents pick out for them. But research published Thursday (July 29) in Science suggests that not ...