A predatory wasp is giving scientists hope that an invasive beetle will stop boring through Rhode Island’s ash trees. “It has been around in the U.S. for quite a while now, but we just got it in Rhode ...

Kyle Lombard points out the exit hole from a tetrastichus wasp. Last week, a UPS truck rolled up to an office of the Division of Forests and Lands. Its cargo? A cooler full of Asian wasps from a lab ...

It's unusual for a college student to discover even one new species. Rachel Smith discovered eighteen. All of them were beetles. That means that the stupendous, ever-growing list of beetle species ...

Rhode Island scientists released a wasp species meant to attack an invasive beetle species known as the emerald ash borer. According to Burrillville Land Trust President Paul Roselli,the beetle ...

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have identified a small, parasitic wasp from Taiwan that could help suppress Southern California’s growing polyphagous shot hole borer infestation ...

Jul. 16—It's summer. That means, to paraphrase Donovan in a way he wouldn't appreciate, it must be the Season of the Wasp. But before I go further, I'm adding a content warning, at the request of Keri ...

A destructive beetle that targets ash trees — known as the emerald ash borer — may have met its match.Entomologists believe a wasp may be more effective monitoring the spread of the beetle than ...

Kristine Grayson is an associate professor of biology at the University of Richmond. This story was originally featured on The Conversation. The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER — It’s a unique plan to save tens of ...

In an attempt to try and halt the continual spread of the emerald ash borer beetle, which has been responsible for the deaths of scores of ash trees, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

A defenseless insect can gain protection from predators if it evolves to resemble a well-defended species. This evolved similarity is called mimicry, and most familiar are examples of edible ...

Beetles make up around 40% of all insect species ever described and around 25% of all animals. Are there really that many different kinds of... Beetles And Wasps Vie For Title of Most Diverse Critter ...