Tiny fairy wasps are so small they can lay their eggs inside other insects eggs, but they punch above their weight when it comes to keeping pests down.
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You can barely communicate with your kids, but these creatures are sending complex interspecies instructions.
Bees and wasps can recognise people’s faces – despite having less than one million brain cells, compared to 86,000 million brain cells that make up a human brain.
Killing insects, as the Big Wasp Survey asked people to do, contributed to many vital advances in science.
Indigenous biocontrol agents could be used to curb the spread of invasive wasps across South Africa and into sub-Saharan Africa.
New research into how wasps divide up their jobs shows how economics can be key to understanding animal behaviour.
Hoverflies have evolved to trick predators into thinking they have a sting in the tail – but the predators have fought back.
We should celebrate these amazing insects, not splat them.
Without insects the food chain would diminish and we would have very little fruit and vegetables to eat.
Scientists in Japan have discovered a new species of wasp that induces a zombie-like state in spiders in order to manipulate them into protecting the wasp’s own offspring.
A new study reveals one of the animal world’s more bizarre and gruesome parasitic relationships.
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is a common refrain. But usually it is not followed by the words “because your neighbours may kill you”. However, this is precisely the scenario faced by some female…
Reproduction for a female fig wasp can be a nightmarish process. When she is ready to lay her eggs, she leaves the fig in which she was born and became pregnant and searches for another. After she finds…
Much like people, insect colonies like to know if her majesty is at home. In the ants, bees, wasps and termites (the “big four” of the social insect world), the queen has long been suspected of using special…
Recently a newspaper asked its readers to propose species that were, ecologically speaking, “useless”, such that their loss would not have any great knock-on effect on other species or biological cycles…
Few of us consider that having sex could result in a violent, instantaneous death. But in nature, where sex and violence are often two sides of the same coin, many animals are routinely subjected to such…
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Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL
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Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
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Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
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Lecturer in Ecology, University of New England
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Lecturer in Animal Biology, University of Leeds
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Senior lecturer, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Science Communication, University of Gloucestershire
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Director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO
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Professor, University of Reading
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Postdoctoral research associate, Newcastle University
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Distinguished Professor and Director, Trophic Cascades Program, Oregon State University
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Senior Lecturer in Insect Diversity, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
