Ah, motherhood. I don’t know anything about it, but I heard there’s a lot of, like, sacrifice and stuff. Not only do you have to bring the brat into the world, but then you have to feed it for at ...
Due to its extreme sexual dimorphism and disparate hosts, no female myrmecolacid has been matched to its conspecific male to date. Here, for the first time to our knowledge, a morphological ...
Kukalová-Peck (1991) and Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence (1993) proposed new characters to support a sister-group relationship between Strepsiptera and Coleoptera based on hind wing venation. Through the ...
MALES of a species called Xenos peckii have an unusual eye for the ladies. X. peckii is a member of the Strepsiptera, a group of insects that parasitise other insects. Its victim of choice is the ...
A parasite masquerading as its host to avoid detection may sound pretty unfair. But then again, all's fair in love and war – at least in the war against red imported fire ants. COLLEGE STATION – A ...
A resurfaced video of a giant parasite being extracted from a hornet is making viewers' jaws drop. The video was originally posted to YouTube by the individual who removed the parasite and has been ...
Zoologische Beitraege 36: 83-124. "The monophyly of the Endopterygota (= Holometabola) is considered firmly established, except that the evidence for including the Strepsiptera in this taxon is ...
Finding a mate can be exhausting—so much that some animals die after finally meeting that special someone. For Weird Animal Question of the Week, we took a closer look at the reproductive strategy ...
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