A recent study describes a new species of wasp that lays its eggs inside adult fruit flies, where the wasp larva grows and ...

The team named the new species Syntretus perlmani, and carefully studied its life cycle. Female S. perlmani use their ovipositors to deposit their eggs in the fruit fly’s abdomen, and 18 days later a ...

Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from ...

Researchers in Mississippi discovered Syntretus perlmani, a new wasp species that bursts from adult fruit flies, marking the ...

A bee in your bonnet has nothing on a wasp in your belly. Mississippi scientists have discovered a new species of wasp that lays eggs in living flies so the babies burst out of their bellies ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of parasitoid wasp that matures inside living adult fruit flies before bursting out ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Creating a buzz in Nature, a Mississippi State biologist’s research led to the discovery of a new parasitic wasp species with unusual biology in the Eastern U.S., opening ...

Scientists have accidentally discovered a previously unknown species of parasitic wasp that grows inside the bodies of living flies before bursting out of their stomachs like a xenomorph from the ...

Leading up to the special day, the larva begins to writhe and squirm inside the fly, eventually chewing its way through its host's abdomen, chestburster-style, before wriggling away to a safe place ...

I get twitchy about taking holidays at the end of August, because it's the only time of year when people (and the media) in the UK seem to want to talk about wasps and I have spent my career ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Gray News) - A man has died after reportedly getting stung by a wasp and developing an allergic reaction. WREG reports that Matt Johnson, 40, developed an allergy to wasp stings as ...

New species of wasp 'hidden in plain sight' discovered by researchers Date: September 16, 2024 Source: Mississippi State University Summary: Creating a buzz, a biologist's research has led to the ...