Love vine sucks life from wasps, leaving only mummies
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
Early this spring, Rice University evolutionary biologist Scott Egan stood in a patch of live oak scrub habitat in South Florida and scanned the trees for something he’d never seen outside his lab — a wispy, orange vine twining itself around swollen stems or pea-sized growths on the underside of oak leaves. Egan needed visual […]