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ArticleBody:A team of biologists recently discovered a new parasitic wasp species in the United States that has a unique way of infecting its hosts. Syntretus perlmani lays its eggs in the bodies of living, adult fruit flies instead of larvae or pupae. The wasp larvae then burst out of the fly’s abdomen, killing it. The process is detailed in a study published on September 11 in the journal Nature.
Matt Ballinger. This new species was also discovered hiding “in plain sight.” Mississippi State Ph.D. student and study co-author Logan Moore was collecting infected fruit flies in his backyard in Starkville to learn more about nematode infections in the flies. When studying some of the flies, the team found eggs in their abdomens, but couldn’t tell what species may have laid the eggs.
Moore et al. Nature . The team used field collections and public data to show that the eggs belonged to a new species of parasitic wasp living in the eastern half of the US.
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