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A new study has mounted perhaps the most intricate, detailed look ever at the diversity in structure and form of bees, offering new insights in a long-standing debate over how complex social behaviors arose in certain branches of bees' evolutionary tree. The report offers strong evidence that complex social behavior developed just once in pollen-carrying bees, rather than twice or more, separately, in different evolutionary branches--but researchers say the case is far from closed.

Modern DNA coding techniques have allowed scientists to finally tell these rainbow insects apart for the first time, a process that led to the identification of this species. Their findings were recently published in the online journal, Insect Systematics and Diversity. Credit: Villu Soon, Frode Ødegaard, et. al. Often called emerald wasps, all cuckoo wasps belong to the tribe Chrysidini in the family Chrysididae, a hymenopteran collection of more than 3,000 recognized species with over 1,000 of them belonging to the genus Chrysis. Officially catalogued as Chrysis parabrevitarsis, this...

https://www.afinalwarning.com/510003.html (Natural News) European researchers discovered a new species of cuckoo wasps in Norway’s Lista peninsula. The newfound species is nearly identical and behaves similary to another kind of cuckoo wasps,  Chrysis brevitarsis, making it difficult to distinguish them from each other. Both are parasitic wasps that leech off other insects to feed their young. In a paper published in the journal  Insect Systematics and Diversity, the researchers detailed how they were able to identify the newfound species using the chemicals they emit to commu...

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New parasitic wasp species discovered in Norway Harry Cockburn © Provided by The Independent A new species of parasitic wasp, which lays its eggs in other bee and wasp nests where their larvae hatch and eat their hosts’ developing offspring, has been discovered in Norway. The species belongs to a group of insects known as cuckoo wasps, due to their underhand child-rearing methods similar to the birds. They have brightly coloured iridescent carapaces that shine like jewels, and they are also known as emerald wasps, but due to their physical similarities it has been very dif...