Parasitoid Turns Its Host Into A Bodyguard
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 17:21
in Biology & Nature
A research team offer evidence that behavioral changes of a host are beneficial to the parasite in the field. They studied a moth, the caterpillars of which can be parasitized by an insect parasitoid wasp. Once infected, subversion of the caterpillar normal behavior leads to the protection of the parasite from other predators.