Uncovering behavior of long-dead insects

Monday, July 19, 2010 - 18:07 in Biology & Nature

What can you learn from the 120 year-old body of a parasitoid wasp? Using material from museum collections, researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology report that they can tell how males wasps court their females, based on dead specimens.

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