http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/16/flies-and-booze-strictly-for-medicinal-purposes/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/16/flies-and-booze-strictly-for-medicinal-purposes/#comment-17667 Brian Ogilvie Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:47:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5555#comment-17667 Neat! I've been reading recently about how European naturalists, from Martin Lister to Pierre Lyonet, discovered ichneumon wasp parasitism in all its horror. Nice to know that at least some of the parasitized have a weapon (besides laying massive numbers of eggs in hopes that some survive), <strong>and</strong> that it's booze! Neat! I’ve been reading recently about how European naturalists, from Martin Lister to Pierre Lyonet, discovered ichneumon wasp parasitism in all its horror. Nice to know that at least some of the parasitized have a weapon (besides laying massive numbers of eggs in hopes that some survive), and that it’s booze!

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/16/flies-and-booze-strictly-for-medicinal-purposes/#comment-17666 MonkeyBoy Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:14:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5555#comment-17666 And this in turn leads to fruit flies being attracted to alcoholic drinks and human cultures inventing things like closed containers for storage and steins with lids for drinking. In parts of the US a "mason jar" is a preferred drinking vessel often with a screw on lid. And this in turn leads to fruit flies being attracted to alcoholic drinks and human cultures inventing things like closed containers for storage and steins with lids for drinking. In parts of the US a “mason jar” is a preferred drinking vessel often with a screw on lid.

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