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Discovery adds new species to Rice lab’s ghoulish insect menagerie – EurekAlert

A horrifying insect soap opera with vampires, mummies and infant-eating parasites plays out on the stems and leaves of oak trees every day, and Rice University…

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IMAGE: National Autonomous University of Mexico biologists Alejandro Zaldivar-Riveron (left) and Ernesto Samaca-Saenz (right) with Rice University collaborator Scott Egan in Mexico in 2019.
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Credit: Photo by Scott Egan/Rice University
HOUSTON – (Oct. 26, 2020) – A horrifying insect soap opera with vampires, mummies and infant-eating parasites is playing out on the stems and leaves of live oak trees every day, and evolutionary biologist Scott Egan found the latest character — a new wasp…

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