Free ride Parasitic crustaceans cause significant drag on reef fish impeding their ability to swim fast and stay safe, researchers have found. PhD student, Sandra Binning, of the Australian National ...

Scientists have found evidence of the genetic basis of the evolutionary arms-race between parasitoids and their aphid hosts. Scientists at The University of Manchester have found evidence of the ...

A beautiful butterfly is able to fool ants into rearing its young by masking them with the ants’ own smell, say researchers. Caterpillars of the alcon blue butterfly have developed an outer coat that ...

Forget needy teenagers – the pros of manipulative behaviour are parasitoid wasps. Having partially developed inside caterpillars, the larvae of the wasps manipulate their hosts into watching over them ...