http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/10/mind-controlling-virus-forces-parasitic-wasp-to-put-all-its-eggs-in-one-basket/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/10/mind-controlling-virus-forces-parasitic-wasp-to-put-all-its-eggs-in-one-basket/#comment-14766 Ed Yong Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:03:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6717#comment-14766 Yeah, force of habit. Most of the parasitoid papers I write involve caterpillars and it was really hard to avoid reflexively typing that! Yeah, force of habit. Most of the parasitoid papers I write involve caterpillars and it was really hard to avoid reflexively typing that!

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/10/mind-controlling-virus-forces-parasitic-wasp-to-put-all-its-eggs-in-one-basket/#comment-14765 Tom Turner Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:41:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6717#comment-14765 Note: you repeatedly call Dipteran larvae caterpillars. It is a bit confusing. Note: you repeatedly call Dipteran larvae caterpillars. It is a bit confusing.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/10/mind-controlling-virus-forces-parasitic-wasp-to-put-all-its-eggs-in-one-basket/#comment-14764 Damned Skeptic Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:22:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6717#comment-14764 How does the wasp know that an egg has already been laid in a maggot? If it is done by a sense that is effected by the virus then it is not that the wasp doesn't care that there is already an egg in the maggot, but the wasp does not know that the maggot was implanted. How does the wasp know that an egg has already been laid in a maggot? If it is done by a sense that is effected by the virus then it is not that the wasp doesn’t care that there is already an egg in the maggot, but the wasp does not know that the maggot was implanted.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/10/mind-controlling-virus-forces-parasitic-wasp-to-put-all-its-eggs-in-one-basket/#comment-14763 Plarah Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:00:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=6717#comment-14763 Mmmh... Kinda sounds like the Hunger Games to Mmmh… Kinda sounds like the Hunger Games to

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