After the Trump administration's cut to USAID, funding for agricultural research at 17 labs at U.S. universities is now ...

tI’s a scene straight out of your worst nightmare: dozens of tiny, milky larvae wriggle out of their still-living caterpillar host, leaving behind the scarred, gaping holes from whence they emerged.

Delve into the dark world of parasitic wasps and discover their grisly takeovers of living caterpillars. Becoming a butterfly is a dangerous game, and it's easy for caterpillars to fall victim to some ...

While wasps are also important to the natural environment, their predation on monarch butterfly caterpillars means that only very few survive. If you want to protect monarch butterflies in your ...

As Nebraska wages battle with wheat stem sawfly, some recent research at the High Plains Ag Lab is showing promise.

That in itself is a tricky manoeuvre: the caterpillar hangs from a small patch of silk while it takes its skin of. The trick ...

“The horticulture department gave us packets of parasitoid wasps that kill the caterpillar, but we are unsure about how many wasps to release,” said Nagarajan, who cultivates coconuts on two acre ...