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 ...

Gall wasps are a stingless species that create galls on trees and bushes where they grow from larvae into adulthood. So, now we know they won't hurt us, but are those bulbous tumor-like balls on ...

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 ...

The Asian chestnut gall wasp (ACGW), Dryocosmus kuriphilus, is a significant pest affecting chestnut trees globally, leading to substantial economic losses in chestnut cultivation. To combat this ...

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.

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 ...