Stability relies on dispersal in parasitic relationship between aphids and wasps.
May 10, 2024
May 10, 2024
MADISON, Wisconsin, May 10 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news:
Aphidius ervi injects an egg into a pea aphid. The wasp larvae will eventually hatch and begin to eat the aphid from the inside out. That is, unless the aphid has inherited resistance in the form of a venom-producing bacterium. Photo by Anthony Ives
Like a scene from the popular sci-fi horror film Alien, when a wasp called Aphidius ervi lays its eggs, it injects them into . . .
Aphidius ervi injects an egg into a pea aphid. The wasp larvae will eventually hatch and begin to eat the aphid from the inside out. That is, unless the aphid has inherited resistance in the form of a venom-producing bacterium. Photo by Anthony Ives
Like a scene from the popular sci-fi horror film Alien, when a wasp called Aphidius ervi lays its eggs, it injects them into . . .