If a specific butterfly anti-sex scent is coupled with a pleasant experience, then parasitic wasps are able to develop long-term memory and respond to this scent that they do not instinctively ...

A cabbage hiring wasp hitmen to protect it from a butterfly invasion sounds like the premise of a deranged children's movie. But new research shows something like that actually might happen in nature.

It’s not every day that you hear about spy missions that involve a lack of sex, but clearly parasitic wasps don’t pay much attention to Hollywood clichés. These insects merge the thriller, ...

One line of T. cacoeciae (Y190) was established from a single female originating from a field-collected host in Wageningen (The Netherlands) in 1994. Wasp culture was maintained on irradiated Ephestia ...

Some plants are known to attract parasitic wasps to eat the eggs laid on them by insects. However, the exact mechanisms of this complex defensive behaviour are not clear. Nina Fatouros at Wageningen ...