Before These Parasitic Wasps Finished Devouring
Live Flies, They Became Fossils. In fly pupae that
turned to stone, scientists found evidence that
wasps have been infesting other insects for tens
of millions of years. By Nicholas St. Fleur, Aug. 28, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/science/wasps-parasites-fossils.html
Digitally Resurrected: Parasitic Wasp Xenomorphia
resurrecta Deposits An Egg in a Fly Pupa (IMAGE)
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/179216.php
The paper is:
Thomas van de Kamp, Achim H. Schwermann, Tomy
dos Santos Rolo, Philipp D. Lösel, Thomas Engler,
Walter Etter, Tomáš Faragó, Jörg Göttlicher, Vincent
Heuveline, Andreas Kopmann, Bastian Mähler,
Thomas Mörs, Janes Odar, Jes Rust, Nicholas Tan
Jerome, Matthias Vogelgesang, Tilo Baumbach and
Lars Krogmann, 2018, Parasitoid biology preserved
in mineralized fossils. Nature Communications
9, Article number: 3325. Article | Open | Published:
28 August 2018
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05654-y
Yours,
Paul H.