A large number of wasp species lay their eggs in fruit fly larvae or pupae. In such instances, the eggs remain dormant in the ...

Otherwise, spraying the outside of a nest won’t necessarily kill the larvae, pupae and adult wasps inside. First, try to ...

This army ant appears to have been out on a hunting mission when it was entrapped. Judging from the wasp pupa beside it, the worker had raided a wasp nest and was in the process of carrying its ...

Soon, however, some of the grubs turn to pupae, and the pupae to perfect waspsworker wasps, which take over the labor of the young colony. Thus, the city grows rapidly, until the vast nest ...

In his debut episode on The Masked Singer, which aired on October 16, 2025, Wasp said he “grew up in a tough neighborhood” and there was “no reason he should have made it out.” However ...

Another example are the solitary wasps known as velvet ants. Female velvet ants lay eggs on the pupae of other species. When their eggs hatch, the young wasps devour their defenceless host. Instead of ...

A butterfly is just one of the creatures that might end up emerging from a chrysalis or a pupa. Butterflies and caterpillars frequently host parasitoids, insects that attack and destroy their hosts, ...

Were you as impressed as we were when Wasp raised his voice in song for the first time on “The Masked Singer”? He wowed us with his flawless cover of the Justin Timberlake hit “Rock Your ...

If the pupa was attacked by parasites, something else may emerge instead of a ladybird. The size and number of parasites gives a strong clue what they are. Neither of the wasps can sting you.

The pupa is a transitional stage to the adult where its true legs ... That hornworm has been attacked by a parasitic wasp – he’s a goner, so no control is needed. (See banner photo above). Part of IPM ...

A 60-year-old New York man has pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers using a wasp-killer spray and assaulting journalists during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Department of ...