The oviposition decisions made by insect parasitoids when encountering hosts of variable quality have been the subject of extensive theoretical and experimental investigation. For parasitoids that lay their eggs inside the host, the possible outcomes of encounters with parasitized hosts have been assumed to include only oviposition (superparasitism), rejection, or in some cases feeding on host ...

A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article. The importance carnivorous arthropods in shaping plant-herbivore interactions has been well investigated (Abdala-Roberts et al., 2019; Price 1980). By “carnivorous”, we mean habit feeding on other animals, which includes omnivores that feed both plants and animals as intraguild predators (Boitani & Pow...

Parasitoids are key ecosystem service providers within sustainable agriculture and integrated pest-management strategies due to their function as biocontrol agents.There is a dearth of data regarding how parasitoids fit wider communities interacting species, but such information essential for the successful implementation conservation biological control in open-field agroecosystems.DNA barcodin...