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  1. Tiny wasp helps save one of world’s rarest birds from extinction theguardian.com/environment/20

    "The Wilkins’ bunting lives on Nightingale Island (#TristanDaCunha group). It eats the fruit of the Phylica arborea, the island’s only native tree... invasive #ScaleInsects secrete honeydew, which encourages the growth of a sooty #mould that weakens and eventually kills P. arborea... a small parasitoid wasp prevents the insects from breeding... Scientists believe that the #wasps have helped save the #birds"

  2. Tiny wasp helps save one of world’s rarest birds from extinction theguardian.com/environment/20

    "The Wilkins’ bunting lives on Nightingale Island (#TristanDaCunha group). It eats the fruit of the Phylica arborea, the island’s only native tree... invasive #ScaleInsects secrete honeydew, which encourages the growth of a sooty #mould that weakens and eventually kills P. arborea... a small parasitoid wasp prevents the insects from breeding... Scientists believe that the #wasps have helped save the #birds"

  3. Tiny wasp helps save one of world’s rarest birds from extinction theguardian.com/environment/20

    "The Wilkins’ bunting lives on Nightingale Island (#TristanDaCunha group). It eats the fruit of the Phylica arborea, the island’s only native tree... invasive #ScaleInsects secrete honeydew, which encourages the growth of a sooty #mould that weakens and eventually kills P. arborea... a small parasitoid wasp prevents the insects from breeding... Scientists believe that the #wasps have helped save the #birds"

  4. Tiny wasp helps save one of world’s rarest birds from extinction theguardian.com/environment/20

    "The Wilkins’ bunting lives on Nightingale Island (#TristanDaCunha group). It eats the fruit of the Phylica arborea, the island’s only native tree... invasive #ScaleInsects secrete honeydew, which encourages the growth of a sooty #mould that weakens and eventually kills P. arborea... a small parasitoid wasp prevents the insects from breeding... Scientists believe that the #wasps have helped save the #birds"

  5. Tiny wasp helps save one of world’s rarest birds from extinction theguardian.com/environment/20

    "The Wilkins’ bunting lives on Nightingale Island (#TristanDaCunha group). It eats the fruit of the Phylica arborea, the island’s only native tree... invasive #ScaleInsects secrete honeydew, which encourages the growth of a sooty #mould that weakens and eventually kills P. arborea... a small parasitoid wasp prevents the insects from breeding... Scientists believe that the #wasps have helped save the #birds"

  6. I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.

    I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!

    #bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid

  7. I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.

    I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!

    #bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid

  8. I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.

    I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!

    #bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid

  9. I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.

    I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!

    #bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid

  10. I found the most amazing scale insects (superfamily Coccoidea) on a tree today!!! Big, close to pea-sized, and salmon-coloured, and tended by carpenter ants.

    I pried up the edge of an already damaged one with a leaf-stem, and some babies came out!!

    #bugstodon #insects #ScaleInsects #Hemiptera #Sternorrhyncha #Coccoidea #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Camponotus #macro @bugid

  11. I found a new kind of scale insect on pine needles! Anyone know what it might be? I think the tree is red pine, but not sure. Attached a pic of the needles for reference.

    #Arthropoda #insects #ScaleInsects @bugid

  12. I found a new kind of scale insect on pine needles! Anyone know what it might be? I think the tree is red pine, but not sure. Attached a pic of the needles for reference.

    #Arthropoda #insects #ScaleInsects @bugid

  13. I found a new kind of scale insect on pine needles! Anyone know what it might be? I think the tree is red pine, but not sure. Attached a pic of the needles for reference.

    #Arthropoda #insects #ScaleInsects @bugid

  14. I found a new kind of scale insect on pine needles! Anyone know what it might be? I think the tree is red pine, but not sure. Attached a pic of the needles for reference.

    #Arthropoda #insects #ScaleInsects @bugid

  15. I found a new kind of scale insect on pine needles! Anyone know what it might be? I think the tree is red pine, but not sure. Attached a pic of the needles for reference.

    #Arthropoda #insects #ScaleInsects @bugid

  16. One wonders if the scale insects get nervous when one of their neighbors suddenly collapses into a bloom of zombie fungus.

    #Ophiocordyceps #Fungus #ScaleInsects #Death

  17. One wonders if the scale insects get nervous when one of their neighbors suddenly collapses into a bloom of zombie fungus.

    #Ophiocordyceps #Fungus #ScaleInsects #Death

  18. One wonders if the scale insects get nervous when one of their neighbors suddenly collapses into a bloom of zombie fungus.

    #Ophiocordyceps #Fungus #ScaleInsects #Death

  19. One wonders if the scale insects get nervous when one of their neighbors suddenly collapses into a bloom of zombie fungus.

    #Ophiocordyceps #Fungus #ScaleInsects #Death

  20. One wonders if the scale insects get nervous when one of their neighbors suddenly collapses into a bloom of zombie fungus.

    #Ophiocordyceps #Fungus #ScaleInsects #Death