Shirley · @swirls
36 followers · 73 posts · Server birds.town

laying eggs with her ovipositor. Freaky.

#wasp #parasitoid #eggs #ovipositors

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Colin Purrington · @colinpurrington
564 followers · 742 posts · Server flipping.rocks

Cordyligaster septentrionalis (Tachinidae). Larval host is apparently unknown. Rushton Woods Preserve, Willistown, PA.

#Diptera #fly #insect #nature #entomology #parasitoid

Last updated 2 years ago

Pestinfo · @pestinfo
22 followers · 24 posts · Server ecoevo.social

The family Pteromalidae includes important , but has become a polyphyletic assembly of genera - a taxonomic revision of this family, using molecular and morphological criteria, has been now published in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research (Dec. 2022, vol. 94, pp. 13-88) by Roger Burks and others - doi.org/10.3897/jhr.94.94263

#parasitoid #wasps

Last updated 2 years ago

Pestinfo · @pestinfo
18 followers · 16 posts · Server ecoevo.social

Urban green roof tops can host insect but also a large variety of - article in Wildlife Research (2022, vol. 49, pp. 659-672) by Aramee C. Diethelm and Susan E. Masta - doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.9834

(image from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil)

#pests #parasitoid #wasps

Last updated 2 years ago

Ian Hunt · @ianhunt
95 followers · 175 posts · Server mastodon.green

One of the ichneumon wasps I think, visiting at New Year, perhaps it came on with the ivy. Wonder what it uses that ovipositor on?

#insectodon #wasps #parasitoid

Last updated 2 years ago

Albert Cardona · @albertcardona
1415 followers · 820 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

On our window, this afternoon. Possibly an early hatching wasp, emerging from either our potted Christmas tree, or from outside—temperatures have been rather high, as in early Spring. Alas its fate is likely sealed by the absence of flowering plants.
Ichneumonidae inaturalist.org/observations/1

#parasitoid #entomology #hymenoptera #wasplove #inaturalist #InverteFest

Last updated 2 years ago

· @CBGPMontpellier
88 followers · 7 posts · Server ecoevo.social

X-mas before X-mas 🎄🎁🐝

The major revision of the family is finally out!

led by
@UCRiverside
and
@CBGPMontpellier

@INRAE_DPT_SPE

jhr.pensoft.net/article/94263/

#parasitoid #wasp #pteromalidae #roger_burks #jean_yves_rasplus #oa

Last updated 2 years ago

Darren Obbard · @DarrenObbard
302 followers · 92 posts · Server ecoevo.social

Day14: hydei was originally a South American specialist, but is now a global commensal sciencedirect.com/science/arti and is the UK’s only common repleta-group fly. It has been studied as a host to parasitic mites doi.org/10.1017/s0031182016000 and for a fascinating interaction between wasps and defensive Spiroplasma doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0 . It also briefly held the crown for the longest drosophilid sperm, at around 10 body-lengths pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.

#advent #drosophila #cactus #parasitoid #Endosymbiont

Last updated 2 years ago

Dylan Shropshire · @ShropshireJD
299 followers · 71 posts · Server fediscience.org

often protect their hosts from threats. For instance, inhibit in and defensa protect from wasps.

Here, researchers report that insecticola protects from Acyrthosiphon pisum virus. This is only the second reported to inhibit viral pathogens in .

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/364584

#arthropods #symbiont #aphids #regiella #parasitoid #hamiltonella #insects #pathogens #viral #wolbachia #endosymbionts #bacterial

Last updated 2 years ago

Dylan Shropshire · @ShropshireJD
299 followers · 71 posts · Server fediscience.org

often protect their hosts from threats. For instance, inhibit and defensa protect from wasps.

Here, researchers report that insecticola protects from Acyrthosiphon pisum virus. This is only the second reported to inhibit viral pathogens in arthropods.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/364584

#symbiont #aphids #regiella #parasitoid #hamiltonella #pathogens #viral #wolbachia #endosymbionts #bacterial

Last updated 2 years ago

fx dechaume-moncharmont · @fxdm
428 followers · 442 posts · Server mamot.fr

Success is not enough others must fail: Sperm-limited males continue to mate, which results in lost mating opportunities for their competitors.
📄 Abe J (2019) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73 dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-

#parasitoid #science #ecology #animalbehaviour #competition

Last updated 6 years ago