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Researchers discovered two new parasitic wasp species living in the U.S., tracing their origins back to Europe and uncovering ...

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We have bad news and good news. The bad one is, scientists have found two foreign varieties of wasp in seemingly well-stablished oak woods. The good news—or better said, the silver lining— is that ...

Oak gall wasps and their predators don’t have the panache of butterflies, but they’re attracting growing interest among both scientists and naturalists. Only 1 to 8 millimeters long, these small ...

According to Popular Science, the insects belong to a group of parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs in other insects or plants to survive. B. dorsalis usually targets oak gall wasps, another type of ...

Galls are small, tumor-like growths formed on plants that act as incubators for oak gall wasp larvae. Parasitic wasps often lay their own eggs in these galls, which later feed on their victims. North ...

North America has around 90 different species of oak trees, and around 800 species of oak gall wasps that live upon them. Then there are parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in the galls and go on to ...