A parasitic wasp that injects its eggs into the leek moth - a serious agricultural pest - also adds a lethal virus that stops the moth's immune system from harming the eggs, according to a new study.

A rare moth that pretends to be a wasp to avoid predators has become the 10,000th species recorded at a UK nature reserve. The National Trust believe that Wicken Fen nature reserve in Cambridgeshire ...

You can be be living in a country for decades, and then one day you find out: a chunky moth that looks just like a wasp lives there too. This stripy specimen was discovered in a nature reserve in ...

A ‘gruesome’ wasp which hatches inside other insects, and eats its way out, is one of a record 815 new species discovered by the Natural History Museum this year. Scientists have also found the ...

(via Deep Look) Once clothes moth larvae start eating your favorite garments, they’re tough to get rid of. Tiny parasitoid wasps are here to help – they lay their eggs inside the moth’s eggs so you ...

The Environmental Protection Authority has approved the release from containment of a parasitoid wasp, Mastrus ridens, as a biological control agent for the codling moth, Cydia pomonella. Mastrus ...

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 ...