Hidden cost of bodyguards
Enslaving a bodyguard has its costs. A wasp species that turns beetles into bizarre protectors of young wasplings pays a price in later egg-laying, researchers in Canada and France report in an upcoming Biology Letters. A larva of the parasitic wasp Dinocampus coccinellae grows almost to maturity inside a spotted lady beetle.
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