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What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

We provide a comprehensive re-examination of the early medieval cocoons unearthed during archaeological excavations in the ...

A new food allergy diagnostic test addresses many of the drawbacks of the current gold standard oral food challenge by only ...

Summertime. Spaniels pant, cones are crunched and the distant sneezes of hay fever victims ricochet through the home counties ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.

The report, published by Zoological Survey of India, which functions under the ministry of environment, forest, and climate ...

The study has been published in the European Journal of Taxonomy and describes four previously unknown species of parasitoid wasps belonging to the genus, Idris Förster (Hymenoptera Scelionidae) ...

Hymenoptera venoms are mixtures of various low-molecular-weight substances, peptides and proteins, which often have enzymatic properties.

Further injections of the maintenance dose of 100 µg every 4 weeks during the first year, every 6 weeks during the second year and then every 8 weeks if venom immunotherapy is continued for more ...

A new study released today shakes up the scientific understanding of venom and proposes a radical redefinition that means the saliva of aphids and chemicals released by slugs will join the bites of ...