Immature development of parasitoid wasps is restricted to resources found in a single host
that is often similar in size to the adult parasitoid. When two or more parasitoids of the same …

ABSTRACT A key to understanding life's great diversity is discerning how competing
organisms divide limiting resources to coexist in diverse communities. While temporal …

Superparasitism in gregarious wasps occurs with the deposition of a clutch of eggs by a
female into a host already parasitized by itself or a conspecific female. This review …

Many parasitoid species are subjected to strong selective pressures from their host, and
their adaptive response may result in the formation of genetically differentiated populations …

As a result of an intense host–parasite evolutionary arms race, parasitic wasps frequently
display high levels of specialization on very few host species. For instance, in braconid …

Summary 1 In studies on optimal foraging strategies, long‐range decisions in the pursuit of
resource are rarely considered. This is also the case for sympatric parasitoids, which may be …

Basal and plasticity of thermal tolerance determine abundance, biogeographical patterns
and activity of insects over spatial and temporal scales. For coexisting stemborer parasitoids …

Interspecific competition between Diadegma semiclausum and Cotesia plutellae was
investigated at 25° C in the laboratory, by exposing the third instar larvae of the …

Endoparasitoids possess a whole set of virulence factors to counter the immune response of
their host, among which can be found venom, endosymbiotic viruses and ovarian proteins …

1. Intrinsic competition was compared in three species of braconid wasps, the solitary
Meteorus pulchricornis Wesmael, and the gregarious Cotesia kariyai (Watanabe) and …