Leading Role in Biodiversity

Leading Role in Biodiversity

waspandaphid.jpg
Parasitic wasp and aphid, courtesy of WSU

There is a lot of buzz about biodiversity these days. But new wasp research is showing it’s not just the number of species present that indicates a healthy system. But there also must be diversity in what each species can do.

Washington State University researchers looked to parasitic wasps (the ones that inspired the creature in Alien) to help prove the theory.

Share

Leave a Reply

Technology blogs
Technology

Warning: Unknown: open(/var/sessions/sess_f32d55de08ebaca26bbced61eb7fdcf5, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/var/sessions) in Unknown on line 0