A photo of a cup plant teaming with insects led a better understanding of the biology of Acanthocaudus wasps which inject their eggs into aphids that eat the plant. The adult wasps burst out of the ...

Turning loose a non-native wasp to sting and kill an aphid that feasts on wheat and barley in the Western U.S. has received an environmental endorsement from the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health ...

Soybean aphids beware: Binodoxys communis may be coming to a field near you. Binodoxys communis, a wasp that is one-twenty-fifth of an inch in size, feast on soybean aphids, each stinging 50 to 100 ...

Soybean research funding in South Dakota is helping to find natural solutions for soybean aphids. The possible answer? Wasps. Dave Iverson, chairman of the South Dakota Soybean Research and Promotion ...

Aphids are one pest that make every gardener sigh as they return continuously. They're extremely common and don't discriminate in the plants they attack – ornamentals, edibles, flowers, foliage, and ...

In the war between parasite and host, the parasitic wasp, Aphidius ervi, and the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, are locked in a battle for survival. New research published in BioMed Central's open ...

It’s taken many years and many groups working together to get to the point of releasing Binodoxys communis. Binodoxys communis is a Chinese wasp that naturally controls soybean aphids. It is being ...

Using other insects to control pests like greenfly has been a massive success story for farming, reducing the use of chemical pesticides. But new research from Harper Adams University suggests the ...

Few insects strike greater fear into the hearts of orchard-owners than rosy apple aphids. These tiny bugs feed on the leaves of apple trees, draining them of nutrients. Their saliva, meanwhile, ...

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular ...

Giant aphids have been linked to an increase in wasps. The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) first identified the giant willow aphid species in January, after a report from an Auckland insect ...