Apr 23, 2016
#365Insects 113: #Pseudoxenos tigridis Pierce, 1911 Another pin, another story. Here, the tale of a trio of weird parasites with twisted wings and peculiar habits along with their wasp host, #Ancistrocercus adianatus. The two winged males on points emerged from between the abdominal segments of this potter wasp, while their sister stays put inside her host in a sac-like adult form waiting for Mr. Right to come along and mate with her neck. Then, it's only a matter of time until her cute little larvae burrow out of her body in search of a host of their own. Ah, love in the time of #Strepsiptera! (at University of Guelph)