Aphids can create all kinds of destruction in your garden, causing disfigured or yellowing leaves on your plants and trees ...

The bacteriophage gene, expressed by the bacteria, makes the aphid resistant to a parasitic wasp that plagues it. These wasps lay their eggs inside the larvae, or maggots, and remain there until ...

Both native predators, such as ladybirds, hoverflies and lacewings, and an introduced parasite attack woolly aphids. The introduced parasite, a tiny wasp (Aphelinus mali), now lives wild in southern ...

Parasitoid is the name given to insects that behave like parasites but always kill their host. Farmers take advantage of the fact that certain parasitoids naturally prey on particular species of crop ...