Wasps move in on ant-plant partnership, disrupting a 10‑million‑year mutualism

An international team of scientists from Queen Mary University of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Biology Centre ...
Texas Monthly

Emerald Ash Borers Are Decimating Texas Trees. Wasps Might Help Defeat Them.

On an early summer day in 2016, entomologist Jian Duan arrived at a nondescript office building in north Houston to deliver some bad news—and some good. Texas forestry officials had notified Duan a ...
KOIN 6

Wasps released in Forest Grove to help combat spread of emerald ash borer

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – When the emerald ash borer was first found in Forest Grove in June 2022, the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon Department of Agriculture took the discovery very ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Emerald ash borers are killing NH's ash trees. Meet the wasps that could save them.

One of the three wasp species the state's Division of Forests and Lands uses are tied to a tree during their release so they can emerge in their own time. Earlier this summer, during a scheduled tree ...
Traverse City Record-Eagle

Wood wasp a threat, can kill up to 80 percent of trees it infects

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