True Facts Parasitoid Wasps

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Go to https://ground.news/ZeFrank to save 50% on the Ground News unlimited access Vantage plan and discover the full spectrum of truths and absurdities behind today’s headlines. • merch: https://ze-true-store.myshopify.com/ • patreon: / posts • classical music: / 5-au • sponsor music: https://incompetech.com/ • Credits: • Dr. Matt Buffington, USDA / Smithsonian Institute • Dr. Hans Smid, Wageningen Univ. • Matvey Nikelshparg, Chernyshevsky Saratov State Univ. • Dr. Scott P. Egan, Rice Univ. • Dr. Ellen O. Martinson, Univ.of New Mexico • Dr. Kelly Weinersmith, Rice Univ. • Dr Adrian Smith, North Carolina State Univ. / Ant Lab • Dr. Alexey Polilov, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ. • Dr. Maridel Fredericksen, Univ.of Basel • Dr. Nina Fatouros, Wageningen Univ. • Gino Nearns, USDA / Smithsonian • Alicia Hodson, Smithsonian • Dr. Frederic Libersat, Ben Gurion Univ. • Dr. Kenneth Catania, Vanderbilt Univ. • Additional Footage from: • Kevin Collins, https://www.kevincollinsfilm.com • Dr. David Mills Dr. Graham Davis • The Frederic Libersat Lab • Dr. Andreas Kay • Dallas Haselhuhn • Storyteller Travel, • Paper wasp hatching from nest • Insect Brain Database: https://www.insectbraindb.org • iStock • Pond5 • Envato • Shutterstock • Citations • Burrows M, Dorosenko M. Take-off mechanisms in parasitoid wasps. doi: 10.1242/jeb.161463. • Catania KC. How Not to Be Turned into a Zombie. doi: 10.1159/000490341. • Cerkvenik U, et al. Stiffness gradients facilitate ovipositor bending and spatial probing control in a parasitic wasp. doi: 10.1242/jeb.195628. • Csader M, et al (2021) Ovipositor of the braconid wasp Habrobracon hebetor: structural and functional aspects. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.83.64018 • de Bruijn, J.A.C.et al. (2022) Effects of oviposition in a non-host species on foraging behaviour of the parasitoid Cotesia glomerata. Ecological Entomology, https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13151 • Desyatirkina, I.A et al. Multiscale head anatomy of Megaphragma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2023.10.... • Egan SP et al. Description of a new species of Euderus Haliday from the southeastern United States (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae): the crypt-keeper wasp. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.645.11117. • Eggs B et al. Terebra steering in chalcidoid wasps. Front Zool. 2023 Aug 8;20(1):26. doi: 10.1186/s12983-023-00503-1. • Fouad, K et al. (1994). The venom of the cockroach-hunting wasp Ampulex compressa changes motor thresholds: A novel tool for studying the neural control of arousal? • Gokhman VE, Nikelshparg MI (2021) Eupelmus messene Walker, 1839 and E. microzonus Förster, 1860 as parasitoids of Aulacidea hieracii (Bouché, 1834) (Hymenoptera, Eupelmidae, Cynipidae). https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.84.68556 • Ghara M et al (2011) Nature’s Swiss Army Knives: Ovipositor Structure Mirror. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023642 • Groothuis, Jitte. (2018). Miniature masterminds : neurobiology of brain scaling in the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis. • Kruidhof HM et al. Reward value determines memory consolidation in parasitic wasps. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039615. • Kundanati L. Gundiah, N.; Biomechanics of substrate boring by fig wasps. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.098228 • Libersat F. Wasp uses venom cocktail to manipulate the behavior of its cockroach prey. doi: 10.1007/s00359-003-0432-0. • Libersat F, Gal R. Wasp voodoo rituals, venom-cocktails, and the zombification of cockroach hosts. doi: 10.1093/icb/icu006. • Mohan P, Sinu PA (2017) Parasitoid wasp usurps its host to guard its pupa against hyperparasitoids and induces rapid behavioral changes in the parasitized host. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0178108 • Moore, L.D. et al. Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07... • Polilov, AA (2017) Anatomy of adult Megaphragma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), one of the smallest insects, and new insight into insect miniaturization. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.... • Polilov, A.A. et al. Extremely small wasps independently lost the nuclei in the brain neurons of at least two lineages. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31... • Takeda S et al. Exploring the diversity of galls on Artemisia indica induced by Rhopalomyia species through morphological and transcriptome analyses. doi: 10.1002/pld3.619. • Ward, A et al. (2019). A keeper of many crypts: a behaviour-manipulating parasite attacks a taxonomically diverse array of oak gall wasp species. 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0428. • van Vugt JJ, et al. Differentially expressed genes linked to natural variation in long-term memory formation in Cotesia parasitic wasps. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00255. • Weinersmith KL et al. 2017 Tales from the crypt: a parasitoid manipulates the behaviour of its parasite host. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2365 • Yadav P, Borges RM. The insect ovipositor as a volatile sensor within a closed microcosm. doi: 10.1242/jeb.152777.

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