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Here's a black wasp, who turns out to be quite adept at controlling aphid colonies. Watch her as she injects eggs into as many as 200 individual aphids with surgical precision. Watch the waspling grow, kill the aphid, and emerge. Via Uglyoverload See something similar with flies and fire- ants here [...

Transposons are mobile genetic elements found in the hereditary material of humans and other organisms. They can replicate and the new copies can insert at novel sites in the genome. Because this threatens the whole organism, molecular mechanisms have evolved which can repress transposon activ...

You're looking at a close up of a crane fly, though you may know it as a mosquito eater or a mosquito hawk. The fear center of my brain knows them as flying spiders. I'm here to dispel a myth, a myth that I have believed up until about five minutes ago (I'm an office monkey, not a biologist, so cut me some slack...

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Insects Parasites Parasitic Wasp Kills Aphids - Aphid Killer (Preview)	Insect Species	0	1892	Jul 30, 2009 by Dj Quiva
Here's a black wasp, who turns out to be quite adept at controlling aphid colonies. Watch her as she injects eggs into as many as 200 individual aphids with surgical precision. Watch the waspling grow, kill the aphid, and emerge. Via Uglyoverload See something similar with flies and fire- ants here [...
Parasites Humans DNA Parasites Ready To Jump: Even DNA Is Subject To Attack By Parasites (Preview)	Parasitic / Microscopic / Microbial Species	0	1951	Aug 30, 2009 by Dj Quiva
Transposons are mobile genetic elements found in the hereditary material of humans and other organisms. They can replicate and the new copies can insert at novel sites in the genome. Because this threatens the whole organism, molecular mechanisms have evolved which can repress transposon activ...
Inseccts Parasites Alien Animals Crane Fly Myth Dispelled (Preview)	Insect Species	0	1935	Sep 19, 2009 by Dj Quiva
You're looking at a close up of a crane fly, though you may know it as a mosquito eater or a mosquito hawk. The fear center of my brain knows them as flying spiders. I'm here to dispel a myth, a myth that I have believed up until about five minutes ago (I'm an office monkey, not a biologist, so cut me some slack...