Tag: microbiome

Tiny, parasitic wasps are really cool. (5 reasons why I spent two years watching wasp sex)

Tiny, parasitic wasps are really cool. (5 reasons why I spent two years watching wasp sex)

In college, I spent two years of my life asking: when two species of wasps mate, why do their hybrid offspring die? To try and figure this out, I watched wasps have sex, counted the eggs they laid after mating, counted any adults that survived […]