The young wasps eventually hatch and burst out of the cocooned weevil larvae, using them as a food source. Just because the wasp has no more use for the weevil larva body doesn’t mean it’s over.

Parasitic wasp larvae Bathyplectes anurus are perfectly hoppy inside cocoons hijacked from the weevil larvae they ate. Tiny, cocooned parasitic wasp larvae hop their way to safety, jumping to get ...

Their larvae grow up clinging onto the bodies of spiders, and program the arachnids to make extra-sturdy webs, ideal for holding up the cocoons the larvae will eventually spin.

SPIDEY SENSE A parasitic wasp larva forces a spider, shown here at 50 times normal speed, to change its prey-catching web into a stronger, simpler structure that can support a cocoon for the larva ...

Instead of dying, the ladybug survives as a wasp larva emerges from its abdomen and begins to weave a cocoon between the ladybug's legs. That's right: The ladybug is a zombie.

Parasitic wasp larvae on spider host Keizo Takasuka ... the larva spins itself a comfy cocoon and hunkers down for nearly two weeks to complete its metamorphosis.

The wasp larva uses the web to make a cocoon. The wasp larva uses the web to make a cocoon. by Arielle Duhaime-Ross. Source The Journal of Experimental Biology. Aug 6, 2015, 1:46 PM UTC ...

Larvae of some paper wasp species use mysteriously fluorescent silk to weave the container in which they mature to adulthood. By Cara Giaimo Adult paper wasps are capable builders, painstakingly ...

Larvae of the newly discovered parasitoid wasp form star-shaped masses of cocoons lined up in a spherical pattern, suspended by a thread that can reach up to 1 meter in length.

Between 2010 and 2015, researchers collected and analyzed over 300 I. harmandi nests from locations in central Japan, counting the number of eggs, larvae and cocoons to determine the size of the ...

I’ve dispatched a lot of tomato hornworms this year. Now one has eggs on its back (which I’ve never heard of.) Is this normal? I never seem to catch them until they denude entire branch… ...