Sentences with phrase «gall wasp»
A gall wasp is a type of insect that creates abnormal growths called galls on plants. These galls serve as houses and food sources for the wasp larvae. Full definition
The adult crypt keeper wasp then pops out of the tree with very little effort of its own, after consuming the crypt gall wasp from the inside out.
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Just as the new generation of adult gall wasps bores its way out of the tree, newly hatched E. set wasps kill their hosts, eating their way through their victims» bodies and hiding in the corpse until they reach maturity.
He grows up to go on to study biology and psychology, much against his father's wishes, and eventually goes on to study gall wasps for the way each generation differs from the last — a trait he hopes is true of human beings as well.
In fact, they found around 100 different species of arthropods — some we know like flies, spiders and ants, but also a number of curious critters like gall wasps and book lice.
The saga begins when two majestic live oak species in the southeastern United States send out new shoots, and female crypt gall wasps (Bassettia pallida) arrive to lay eggs.
Sept. 10: How is the gall wasp a part of the American Constitution?
E. set lays its eggs in the new, growing stems of oak trees, in which another wasp, the crypt gall wasp, has also laid its eggs.
That's what researchers discovered was happening to the crypt gall wasp (Bassettia pallida), which lays eggs in the stems of certain oaks.
The new species — known as the crypt keeper wasp (Euderus set, pictured) deposits its egg within the crypt — likely inside the adult crypt gall wasp — and triggers the crypt gall wasp host to stop digging through the stem, plugging its exit hole with its own head partway out of the tree.
But just as the crypt gall wasp manipulates this plant to become its home, a newly discovered species also seems to manipulate the crypt gall wasp to do its bidding.
Insects became even more diverse as the first ants, termites and butterflies appeared, along with aphids, grasshoppers, and gall wasps.
«They are balls of bark and wasp excreta that once nurtured a wasp larva,» Dr. Gunter explains on her site, and they «grow when a gall wasp punctures an oak tree and deposits larva.»
Kinsey settles into his work, studying the life cycle of the gall wasp (sp?)