Discovery Adds New Species to Rice Lab's Ghoulish Insect Menagerie
October 27, 2020
October 27, 2020
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 27 (TNSRes) -- Rice University issued the following news release:
A horrifying insect soap opera with vampires, mummies and infant-eating parasites is playing out on the stems and leaves of live oak trees every day, and evolutionary biologist Scott Egan found the latest character - a new wasp species that may be a parasite of a parasite - within walking distance of his Rice University lab.
Egan, an associate professor of biosciences at Rice, studies . . .
A horrifying insect soap opera with vampires, mummies and infant-eating parasites is playing out on the stems and leaves of live oak trees every day, and evolutionary biologist Scott Egan found the latest character - a new wasp species that may be a parasite of a parasite - within walking distance of his Rice University lab.
Egan, an associate professor of biosciences at Rice, studies . . .