According to the team, the relationship between the blow fly larvae and termites appears to be some form of social parasitism ...

Symbiotic interactions range from parasitism to commensalism and mutualism. Although sometimes considered an unusual way of life, microbial symbioses are increasingly recognized as widespread ...

These relationships, spanning the continuum from mutualism to parasitism, have profound implications across ... approaches to investigate how symbiotic micro-organisms influence insect host ...

Social parasites like P. breviceps are social insects that parasitize colonies of other social insects. These parasites are found throughout the social Hymenoptera (i.e., bees, wasps and ants ...

Parasitoid wasps, belonging to the family Hymenoptera, deprive their insect and spider hosts of nutrition. These wasps represent approximately 20% of the 1 million insect species on Earth, making them ...