While most people believe that aphids on flowers must be fought for the blooms to thrive, the opposite is true. Discover why ...

Aphid parasitoids use an external pheromone-like substance to mark parasitized hosts. We have shown that oviposition restraint varies with the probability of offspring survival, which is influenced by ...

Dr. Girish Kumar P, Principal Scientist at the Zoological Survey of India, named the species after his former zoology ...

Parasitoid wasps of the genus Aphidius are beneficial insects in agroecosystems and play an important role in the biological control of cereal aphids; economically important pests that threaten the ...

A pea aphid Image: WikipediaA bacteriophage infecting a bacterium living in the cells and body cavity of a small, plant-eating insect protects the insect from attack by a deadly wasp predator, reports ...

A parasitoid braconid wasp (Braconidae) attacked this sycamore aphid (Drepanosiphum platanoidis), leaving its larva to build a disc-like cocoon beneath the aphid’s mummified body. A backlit ...