Highlights•Parasitoids commonly feed on honeydew, the primary carbohydrate source in
many agroecosystems.•The potential role of honeydew in biological control has been …

Parasitoid larvae consume their hosts to obtain the nutritional resources required for their
development. Parasitoid wasps can optimally select the size of their hosts by laying …

Foraging parasitoid females should preferentially oviposit on hosts most suitable for progeny
development to maximize their fitness. However, the introduction of a new host species may …

Egg parasitoid rearing on factitious hosts is an important step to reduce costs and increase
availability of the biocontrol agent but it requires quality control to achieve success in field …

Functional response describes the number of hosts attacked by a parasitoid in relation to
host densities and plays an important role by connecting behavioral-level processes with …

Adult parasitoids need to feed to maximize their reproductive success, and they derive
potential food sources from plants, hosts or other insects (honeydew). Adult parasitoids also …

Abstract The parasitoid Anaphes flavipes (Foerster)(Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) is a
gregarious egg parasitoid which is widely used in biological control against important crop …

Egg parasitoids play an important role in regulation and suppression of natural populations
of the Sunn pest, Eurygaster integriceps Puton (Heteroptera: Scutelleridae). Trissolcus …

Ontsira mellipes Ashmead is a gregarious larval ectoparasitoid of woodboring cerambycids
that is native to North America but can readily attack the exotic Asian longhorned beetle …

Abstract Knowledge of the selective pressures favouring parental care can inform our
understanding of the evolutionary origins and transitions of sociality in insects. Here, we …