albertcardona, (edited ) to random
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Ichneumonid wasp ovipositing inside an aphid.

Low-light conditions, a bit blurred. Was fascinating to see, as it iterated over multiple target apids and stabbed them all. Aphids didn't even attempt to run. Interestingly, only chose small aphids, even a very small one (seen in this photo at the lower left, near the posterior tip of the wing of the wasp).

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/221688390

#Hymenoptera #apids #wasplove #engomology #insects #parasitoids

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Why fireflies are only spotted in summer and where lightning bugs live the rest of the year.

CBS News reports: "Their time aboveground before dying is brief, with fireflies actually spending the bulk of their lives living underground."

https://flip.it/dzsny4

#Firefly #Insects #Entomology #Science

plazi_species, to China
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plazi_species, to science
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albertcardona, to random Catalan
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ScienceDesk, to science
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This is a wild headline from NPR: "A fungus is turning cicadas into horny zombies — but don’t panic."

"[The fungus] Massospora cicadina has been observed in cicadas in more than half a dozen states — both those belonging to Brood XIII, which emerges every 17 years and is concentrated in Illinois, and of Brood XIX, a 13-year group that is distributed across much of the southeast."

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