MUNCIE, Ind. – Spiders are perhaps the most feared invertebrates on the planet. Their eight long legs seem to move almost as if each of them has a mind of their own rather than belonging to one ...
If spiders had nightmares, the larvae of ichneumonid wasps would have to star in them. The wasp lays an egg on the back of an orb weaver spider, where it grows fat and bossy, and occupies itself with ...
The interactions between spider hosts and parasitoid wasps constitute a remarkable example of co‐evolution, where intricate behavioural and physiological modifications underpin the survival strategies ...
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The World's Oldest Spider Suffered A Gruesome Death
A spider in Australia lived for an impressive four decades, but in 2016, it was found dead, apparently killed in a rather ...
Setting off a startling chain of events, a parasitoid wasp can force a spider to weave a special web to suspend the wasp pupa just before it finishes killing its spider host. William Eberhard, staff ...
It's become a standard plot line in science fiction: An alien parasite infects the brain of a hapless victim and slowly converts its host into a slave. Biologists, though, have long known they need ...
Consider yourself lucky that you’re not a spider. They may seem like they sit on top of the food chain in the bug world, but they’re vulnerable to an even worse fate than just being eaten: falling ...
Staff and supporters of the Bohart Museum of Entomology unloading a truck full of wasp specimens. Photo by Steve Heydon. The Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis recently received an unusual gift: ...
A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...
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