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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 …

A bit galling

[featured image] What often bamboozles me about the natural world is the bizarre goings on just beneath the surface of something that otherwise looks rather normal. Take for example the gall in the photo below. Galls are formed by various organisms in the tissues of plants and they serve as …