Languages: English. A team of researchers at Mississippi State University has identified a new species of parasitic wasp that employs a previously unknown and gruesome method of reproduction—one ...

While the team was screening more than 6,000 flies, they made the very unusual discovery of a parasitic wasp hiding under the abdomen of an adult fly of the species Drosophila affinis. The wasp ...

Meanwhile, subsequent research found that the wasps infected other species of fruit fly as well. While this parasitic pregnancy might seem like a horrible way to die, this discovery is perhaps a ...

The wasps are parasitoids rather than parasites because they always kill ... confirming the wasp infected that species as well. "Almost everybody in the world has had some sort of interaction ...

Creating a buzz in Nature this week, a Mississippi State biologist’s research has led to the discovery of a new parasitic wasp species with unusual biology in the Eastern U.S., opening doors for ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among ... although not identical behavior has been observed among living parasitoid wasp species. For example, a group of wasps known as ...

The species likely used its unique apparatus to trap its hosts, scientists said. An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among ... behavior has been observed among living parasitoid wasp species. For example, a group of wasps known as cuckoo wasps lay their ...