


Something New Every Day: What One Entomologist Likes Most About the Job
Meet Bernardo Santos, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, expert in the evolution of parasitic wasps, and subject of the next installment of our "Standout Early Career Professionals" series.

Zinc-hardened Drill Bits Allow Parasitic Fig Wasps to Bore Holes to Lay Eggs
One of the main goals in the life of a female insect is to find the best place to lay her eggs. For one particular fig wasp (Apocryta westwoodi grandi), […]

Virginia Entomologists Use Mexican Wasps to Help Indian Farmers
This could be the perfect, real-life representation of the theme for the next International Congress of Entomology — “Entomology without Borders.” Entomologists from Virginian Tech University discovered a devastating plant […]