While the insect's front half would pass for that of a modern wasp, its unique rear end would raise a hymenopteran eyebrow. "Nothing similar is known from any other insect," write the researchers ...

The explanation may be that the social insect queen pheromones have evolved from an ancestral signalling system already present in the earliest common hymenopteran solitary ancestors. The role of the ...

This important manuscript investigates the role of olfactory cues in Pieris brassicae larvae, focusing on their interactions with the host plant Brassica oleracea and the parasitoid wasp Cotesia ...

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