Tiny parasitoid wasps might help you say bye-bye to those smelly mothballs. Once clothes moth larvae start eating your favorite garments, they’re tough to get rid of. Tiny parasitoid wasps are here to ...

Millions of microscopic wasps are scheduled to be released in the coming months in Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, under a state-led plan to control the light brown apple moth. Plans to ...

An army of tiny, parasitic wasps will be unleashed inside the English stately home where Anne Boleyn was born, in order to hunt out and eradicate moths that threaten the mansion’s furniture and ...

Clearwing moths may not look all that dangerous, despite having largely see-through wings like bees and wasps. But some fly like fierce insects best left well alone. Four clearwing species from ...

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Blickling Hall, a centuries-old building in England, is trying to protect its priceless tapestries, carpets and furniture with thousands and thousands of microscopic wasps. By Anna Schaverien Empty of ...

When parasitic wasps come calling, some caterpillars have a surprising ally: a viral infection. Insects called parasitoid wasps lay their eggs inside young moth larvae, turning the caterpillars into ...

Each week for the past three months Christopher Adams, a professor at Oregon State University, has released upward of 4,000 codling moths into the Columbia Gorge’s fertile orchards. The drab, ...

If you feel like you’ve seen more bugs this summer – moths in the bedroom, flies in the kitchen, spiders, well everywhere – you’re not alone. Many people across the UK are reporting seeing more ...

Thank you for joining us for this brief bit of election counterprogramming that may or may not make you feel better, depending on how you feel about parasitic wasps. Because, sure, we’re all stressed ...

A previously unknown species of Japanese parasitic wasp was observed to dive underwater to parasitize moth caterpillars. A very few species of parasitoid wasps can be considered aquatic. Less than 0.1 ...