Comment on "Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps"
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 week agoi mean that’s a pretty unusual pollinator/plant relationship
Comment on "Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps"
jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 week agoi mean that’s a pretty unusual pollinator/plant relationship
psyspoop@lemm.ee 1 week ago
If you study wasps, you’ll find that they very frequently have odd symbioses from species to species, most often as parasites or hyperparasites. Some even have symbiotic relationships with viruses that assist them in their parasitism - ichneumon and braconid wasps have symbiotic viruses called polydnaviruses.