Friday, August 29, 2008

New Parasite Wasp Species Found

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7586016.stm

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love the website. Why did Dr. Williams not tell how long it took for the eggs to hatch? It would have been more interesting if he told people a lot more facts such as 'How long does it take for the wasp to mature?' or 'What it eat?'. Also, didn't the article say that Dr. Williams was studying flies in the beginning, but at the end it said that he was studying snails.

Anonymous said...

i don't really think that the general public would want to know about the origins and the name, but more just the physical detail. i agree with alexis on the subject.

Anonymous said...

While researching the wasp I found out that it is about 4 millimeters long and feeds on aquatic snails and unlike many other parasite wasps it lives alone rather than in a hive.

I found this out in The Irish Times and The Science Musings Blog

Anonymous said...

I loved this article about the new parasite wasp species. I learned a lot about it, also by researching. Like how it was named after the ancient latin name of a country, Mesoleptus Hibernica (in honor of the country of where it was discovered). It was found in university of Ireland, also found by a student named Dr. Williams. The new parsite wasp is not like the dangerous, but known garden wasp. They develop inside a fly larvae of pupae, and feeds on the maggot or pupae, eventually killing it. Subsequently, the wasp develops inside of the maggot and comes out as an adult wasp. I found this information mostly on http://news.aol.co.uk/new-species-of-parasitic-wasp-found/article/2008082808151988692274.

Anonymous said...

I thought that this article was extremely confusing. The wasps hatched from the fly eggs? Or did they hatch somewhere else? It might just be me, but the author didn't do a very good job of explaining.

Anonymous said...

I found this article very interesting. I wonder what it ate. I wish I could learn so many things but unfortunately I can't. I hope someday there would be more informantion.

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Anonymous said...

Before I start talking about the science stuff, I'd like to say HONOUR??????????????????????????
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Anyways, I think this is really cool because I really like bees and wasps. They are very interesting to me because I like little animals (I said this in the The Tiniest Serpent) and wasps and bees and... you get the point. I think it's also cool because it's interesting that the wasps came from fly larvae, which is odd.

Anonymous said...

Before I start talking about the science stuff, I'd like to say HONOUR??????????????????????????
???????????????????????????????
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Anyways, I think this is really cool because I really like bees and wasps. They are very interesting to me because I like little animals (I said this in the The Tiniest Serpent) and wasps and bees and... you get the point. I think it's also cool because it's interesting that the wasps came from fly larvae, which is odd.

Anonymous said...

Shoot i posted it twice by accident

ryan