 | Parasitic Wasps & Aphids Black wasps have their own tactics and methods when it comes to pest control. See All National Geographic Videos http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/?source=4001 |
 | Zombie caterpillar controlled by voodoo wasps Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14053 Find out how a parasitic wasp can make a caterpillar protect its young. |
 | Wasps use parasitic mites as baby bodyguards Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14262?DCMP=youtube Researchers have found that parasitic mites that live in the same nests as baby wasps actually protect them from intruders. |
 | Parasites Killing Our Caterpillars You may not know this, but lots of insects thrive because they lay their eggs in or on caterpillars. When those eggs hatch, they eat the caterpillars while the caterpillars grow. Eventually, those parasites will pupate to become some type of flying insect, but when they leave their host-caterpillar, the hole they leave usually or always kills the caterpillar. So far, we've had flies and wasp-type things for parasites. It makes us very angry when we see our caterpillars die from these parasites, so we usually keep the parasites in a separate container until they hatch out of their own coccoon-things, then we starve them. I know, it's cruel. But they kill our caterpillars! Grrrrrr! |
 | U. of I. Research: Parasitic Wasps A tiny wasp that lays its eggs under the skin of unwitting caterpillars belongs to one of the most diverse groups of insects on Earth. Now researchers report that its diversity is even higher than previously thought. PHOTOS by Won Young Choi, Daniel Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Michael Sharkey, Josephine Rodriguez, Jim Whitfield. Photo montage by M. Alex Smith. |
 | What sort of "god" designed the Jewel Wasp? The emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa, also known as the jewel wasp) is a parasitoid wasp of the family Ampulicidae. It is known for its reproductive behavior, which involves using a live cockroach (specificially a Periplaneta americana) as a host for its larva. A number of other venomous animals which use live food for their larvae paralyze their prey. Unlike them, Ampulex compressa initially leaves the roach mobile, but modifies its behaviour in a unique way. As early as the 1940s it was published that wasps of this species sting a roach twice, which modifies the behavior of the prey. A recent study using radioactive labeling proved that the wasp stings precisely into specific ganglia. Ampulex compressa delivers an initial sting to a thoracic ganglion of a roach to mildly paralyze the front legs of the insect. This facilitates the second sting at a carefully chosen spot in the roach's head ganglia (brain), in the section that controls the escape reflex. As a result of this sting, the roach will now fail to produce normal escape responses. The wasp, which is too small to carry the roach, then leads the victim to the wasp's burrow, by pulling one of the roach's antennae in a manner similar to a leash. Once they reach the burrow, the wasp lays an egg on the roach's abdomen and proceeds to fill in the burrow entrance with pebbles, more to keep other predators out than to keep the roach in. The stung roach, its escape reflex disabled, will simply rest in the burrow as the wasp's egg hatches. A hatched larva chews its way into the abdomen of the roach and proceeds to live as an endoparasitoid. Over a period of eight days, the wasp larva consumes the roach's internal organs in an order which guarantees that the roach will stay alive, at least until the larva enters the pupal stage and forms a cocoon inside the roach's body. After about four weeks, the fully-grown wasp will emerge from the roach's body to begin its adult life. |
 | Sarcopcophaga carnaria, mosca de la carne, moscarda Las moscas, nombre común de numerosas especies de insectos del orden de los dípteros tienen 2 alas, 3 pares de patas, ojos compuestos, antenas cortas y trompa suctora en su aparato bucal. Sarcopcophaga carnaria, mosca de la carne, moscarda debe su nombre a ser la primera en llegar a los cadáveres por lo que sus huevos o larvas se tienen en cuenta en los estudios forenses pa datar el momento exacto de la muerte del cuerpo en el que se alojan. |
 | Apanteles Glomeratus Parasite Wasp xD uno de los mejores insectos parásitos. |
 | Parasitic Wasp stinging Spider Parasitic wasp stinging and possibly laying eggs in a spider. |
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