and their Myrmica ant hosts were studied, both in the wild at the time of adoption, and inside captive nests of six Myrmica species.In the wild, freshly moulted, final instar caterpillars left their food-plants at a time of day that coincided with the peak foraging activity of Myrmica ...
known as caterpillars. When the caterpillar is fully grown, it enters the pupa stage, from which it emerges as a winged adult. The population of the large blue declined greatly in southern England in the late nineteenth century
small and common blue butterflies and it is hoped the threatened Duke of Burgundy will also return to the reserve.The large blue's survival depends on a species of red ant. The butterfly's caterpillars resemble ant grubs, tricking the red ant into carrying them into the ant nests.Inside th...
When laying eggs in infected caterpillars, female parasitoid wasps acquire viral vesicles and virions on the ovipositor, and vector these to new hosts during subsequent oviposition events [20,41,42]. In SfAV-1a, the apoptosis-like process is initiated by a virus-coded executioner caspase, ...