But the emerald ash borers might have met their match in the form of stingless wasps. Tiny, but fierce The wasps are tiny, ranging from one millimeter to three millimeters in length. They also don ...

They would have done well to take a lesson from the emerald cockroach wasp (aka the jewel wasp), which employs a very real and far more disturbing and effective method of brainwashing. This ...

But today Duan isn’t just collecting emerald ash borers. He’s also looking for its predator, one released here on purpose in 2019 and 2020: a wasp known as spathius galinae (pronounced spay ...

Over the next six weeks, more than a thousand stingless, parasitic wasps will be released to combat the threat posed by the emerald ash borer (EAB), a destructive, non-native tree pest that poses ...

While conducting research on the emerald ash borer in Russia and China, he and other researchers found four species of stingless wasps that were its natural predators. All four are able to exploit ...

Research entomologist Jian Duan cuts away bark from ash trees in search of emerald ash borers, an invasive species that has been killing off the trees. They’re looking particularly for those affected ...

The wasp at Vassar is one of three species being deployed across the country. Two of them attack emerald ash borer larvae. The one at Vassar goes after the beetle's eggs. In all three cases ...

Harmless to people, these wasps lay their eggs on the eggs of the emerald ash borer, and when the eggs hatch, wasp larvae eat the borer larvae. A small crew from the Arkansas Forestry Commission ...

Cuckoo wasps -- also called emerald wasps -- are some of the most beautiful insects we have, with colourful exteriors that shine like jewels. However, these beauties have also created a lot of ...

Surprisingly, only four species of solitary wasps are commercially available for biological control (the most well-known is the Emerald jewel wasp, Ampulex compressa, which is famous for ...