The authors' demonstration that impaired olfactory perception reduces caterpillar performance and increases susceptibility to parasitism is solid. These findings highlight the ecological significance ...

They can build their hives in rock crevices, hollow trees, on tree branches, inside the walls of a building ... Many species are pollinators and one species of wasp, the fig wasp, pollinates fig trees ...

Considered by historians to be the first of the domesticated crops, figs (Ficus carica) have long been part of the cultivated diet of humans, according to evidence that stretches back more than ...

When indulging in the sweet taste of figs, the last thing you’d expect is a hidden guest. But what if the rumors you’ve heard about dead wasps inside these juicy fruits are true? Today, we delve deep ...

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The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) confirmed that changes to the Scoring Code for the 2025-2028 cycle have been kept to a minimum, as the review of the code, which takes place every ...

Although these terms are often used interchangeably, there is a subtle difference between them. Mutualism is always a two-way street where both parties benefit, while symbiosis also includes ...

To the untrained eye, Megaphragma wasps may appear as mere specks of dust, but these minuscule insects – measuring just a fifth of a millimeter – are formidable hunters. They prey on even smaller ...

Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which consumes the hoverfly larva from ...

To address this, we leveraged a five-year dataset of trap-nesting bees and wasps and their parasitoids collected in ... for hosts), as confirmed by the sampling completness evaluation (Fig. S1).