Dec 7, 2024
Gouache painting of a female (above) and male (below) fig waspCeratosolen fusciceps sitting on top of a galled flower within a Ficus racemosa fig.
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Gouache painting of a female (above) and male (below) fig waspCeratosolen fusciceps sitting on top of a galled flower within a Ficus racemosa fig.
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animals: throught 6 billion years this big fat bear has evolved to be green so he can hide in the bushes
bugs: last week there was one red bug, now there is a round bug that unravels like a bakugan and another one that has evolved a meth lab inside of her torax complete with a little jesse pinkman (really tiny voice: bitch!)
You do not truly love bugs if you dont understand how all bugs are just a weird ball of clay and you can never truly specify each species without having to count the segment in the legs./sil
A new parasitic wasp species was discovered earlier this year in United States Mississippi. The female wasps of the Syntretus perlmani -species have a sharp stinger-like ovipositor which is used to puncture the exoskeleton of adult fruit flies and lay its eggs inside the fly. Once the egg hatches, the larvae will eat its way out of the host while its still alive and find a substrate to borrow in and begin their cocoon stage.
The media has described this new insect discovery being something akin from the "Alien" movies. I say it is highly accurate. Researches are not yet sure to why this species targets adult fruit flies specifically. Most parasitic species lay their eggs inside hosts when they are young and vulnerable, before they have fully developed their exoskeleton. Further research is required.
Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from the hosts' abdom
TIL about ant communal disinfection 🐜💊🌿🌼:
Fire ants feed their larvae venom, likely as an internal antibiotic link
Lasius neglectus (invasive garden ants): not only do they mechanically remove fungal particles, they chemically disinfect other ants by applying venom link
Wood ants essentially make their own antibiotic: they mix their own venom and the coniferous tree resin that they use as nesting material, which synergistically enhances the resin’s disinfecting properties, thus potentiating the inhibition of fungi growth in the nests link
Ants who are caring for an infected mate can acquire an essentially asymptomatic infection, which increases susceptibility to a different pathogen. In order to reduce this chance for superinfection, caregiving ants who are infected with a pathogen A will groom (physically remove infectious particles with their mouth parts) and disinfect with venom other mates infected with the same pathogen but will avoid physically grooming those infected with a pathogen B, preferring to spray venom from a larger distance to avoid superinfection. link
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Inspired by cockroaches' ability to squeeze through tight spaces, UC Berkeley scientists build flexible roach robot.
Roachbot!
This thing is very cool. Roaches are extremely flexible little insects and Roachbot here shows some real promise for search-and-rescue first response- add some sensor or cameras and the bot can get into tight places and transmit information extremely quickly!
Drawings of male fig wasps of the same two species as my last post, done as part of my masters thesis a few years ago.
Male fig wasps generally look entirely different to the females with most having no wings, vestigial/no eyes and tiny antennae. They cannot survive long outside the fig - their only role being to mate and then chew an exit from the fig for the winged females. 🌱
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Monarch butterflies travel up to 4,500 km from Canada to a 56-square-mile forest in Mexico — and return to the same oyamel fir trees their great-great-grandparents used. Their antennae contain a circadian clock and UV-light sensors that work like a sun compass, correcting direction every few minutes
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