In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, a listener on “team wasp” writes in with some interesting info on USDA wasps for pesticide-free pest control and we learn about some wasp versus beetle drama.

Jul. 16—It's summer. That means, to paraphrase Donovan in a way he wouldn't appreciate, it must be the Season of the Wasp. But before I go further, I'm adding a content warning, at the request of Keri ...

KA’U (HawaiiNewsNow) - Tiny wasps the size of dust particles could be the answer to saving Hawaii Coffee farms. And now UH researchers plan to set a swarm free on Hawaii Island. Tens of thousands of ...

Kristine Grayson is an associate professor of biology at the University of Richmond. This story was originally featured on The Conversation. The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is a ...

OAKDALE, Minn. – State researchers have a new ally in the battle against the emerald ash borer. It's a wasp called the Cerceris fumipennis – otherwise known as the smoky winged beetle bandit. And ...

On the last day of July, there was a different kind of drama at a baseball field in Rutland Town. A mother wasp flew low over the infield, weighed down with a beetle that she planned to feed to her ...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Tennessee are investigating whether parasitic wasps can be used to kill the emerald ash borer, a beetle that is threatening millions of trees ...

Officials are proposing the release of a parasitoid wasp from Africa to assist in the fight against the invasive coffee berry borer. The coffee berry borer (CBB) is the most destructive insect pest of ...

Maui coffee farmers are “cautiously optimistic” about the proposed use of a parasitoid wasp in Hawaii to help control the invasive coffee berry borer, a bug that has caused catastrophic impacts to ...

Ash trees are dead or dying because of the little iridescent green beetle The emerald ash borer's small size – no bigger than a cooked grain of rice – belies its destructive power. The beetle’s ...