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A wasp love story

Girl wasp meets boy wasp. Girl wasp gets it on with boy wasp. Boy wasp gives girl wasp a STD with a difference… STDs are common among the animals and we can be fairly certain that any animal that engages in sex is troubled by at least one pathogen that …

Mini-hawks

[featured image] In one of my older posts I banged on about the hunting prowess of some of the solitary wasps and I alluded to the visual acuity of these mini-hawks. This post concerns Ectemnius wasps in particular. These have to be right up there amongst my favourite animals. If …