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The Scary Sounding Wasps That Can Help Control Your Aphid Problem
Aphids can create all kinds of destruction in your garden, causing disfigured or yellowing leaves on your plants and trees ...
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Fly vs. wasp: Stealing a defense move helps thwart a predator
The bacteriophage gene, expressed by the bacteria, makes the aphid resistant to a parasitic wasp that plagues it. These wasps lay their eggs inside the larvae, or maggots, and remain there until ...
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Fruit flies steal bacterial defense to survive parasitic wasps
The bacteriophage gene, expressed by the bacteria, makes the aphid resistant to a parasitic wasp that plagues it. These wasps lay their eggs inside the larvae, or maggots, and remain there until ...
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King of the stingers: Are we too harsh on wasps?
A single wasp colony in your back garden could be removing as many as 250,000 aphids during a season. As expert and self-proclaimed “wasp lady” Seirian Sumner told the show: “They are the ...
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Can You Believe the Gall of These Aphids?
The aphid in this image is cozying up in the so-called gall that it has forced a plant to grow around it, providing the insect with both protection and food. Get a closer view of the image Get a ...