Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs ...

Because citrus is so delicious, consider growing your own tree in your yard. Due to disease pressure, the trees will benefit from the extra TLC! However, a little effort to improve soil health seems ...

They explained that in the ruthless world of parasitic ants, taking over a host colony is a matter of life and death.

Lasius orientalis and Lasius umbratus—invade and overtake a host ant colony. In both cases, the parasitic ant queen invades the nest and sprays the host colony queen with what is likely formic acid.

In the ruthless world of parasitic ants, taking over a host colony is a matter of life and death. The conventional understanding has ...

Parasitic ants have developed a method to take over colonies with rulers too strong to defeat by direct attack. They use a ...

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...

Mwanzia is among farmers who have benefited from a pest management programme run by Kalro in partnership with the Korean government.

NBAIR maintains live insect cultures for pest control and a research repository containing over 300,000 insect specimens.