Soybean aphids beware: Binodoxys communis may be coming to a field near you. Binodoxys communis, a wasp that is one-twenty-fifth of an inch in size, feast on soybean aphids, each stinging 50 to 100 ...

But new research from Harper Adams University suggests the aphids may well be evolving resistance to this approach.

Soybean aphids beware: Binodoxys communis may be coming to a field near you. Binodoxys communis, a wasp that is one-twenty-fifth of an inch in size, feast on soybean aphids, each stinging 50 to 100 ...

Soybean research funding in South Dakota is helping to find natural solutions for soybean aphids. The possible answer? Wasps. Dave Iverson, chairman of the South Dakota Soybean Research and Promotion ...

In the war between parasite and host, the parasitic wasp, Aphidius ervi, and the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, are locked in a battle for survival. New research published in BioMed Central's open ...

The parasitic wasp Aphelinus asychis stings a Russian wheat aphid. The USDA has concluded that employing another parasitic wasp, Aphelinus hordei, would do no significant environmental damage. Turning ...

Giant aphids have been linked to an increase in wasps. The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) first identified the giant willow aphid species in January, after a report from an Auckland insect ...

The term "beneficial virus" sounds like an oxymoron. But for pea aphids under attack by parasitic wasps, carrying infected bacteria is the difference between life and a slow death, according to new ...

Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular ...

Few insects strike greater fear into the hearts of orchard-owners than rosy apple aphids. These tiny bugs feed on the leaves of apple trees, draining them of nutrients. Their saliva, meanwhile, ...