The product life cycle is an important tool for marketers, management and designers alike. It specifies four individual stages of a product’s life and offers guidance for developing strategies to make ...

One reliable method of control has been to release tiny insects called parasitoid wasps into the wild that can hunt down immature fruit flies and target them for annihilation. The term parasitoid ...

Fruit flies wreak havoc on crops in Hawaii, but a type of parasitoid wasp armed with a biological weapon has helped keep the pests at bay.

Parasitoid wasps use an elongated stinger, known as an ovipositor, to drill into fruits where flies are developing and pierce the fly's body to lay an egg within. Wasp eggs hatch inside the fly ...

These tiny passengers were wasp eggs and larvae sitting inside weevils, which upon arrival in New Zealand would become soldiers in a war against entrenched agricultural pests that has saved the ...