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A black garden ant (Lasius niger) engaging in necrophoresis. Necrophoresis is a sanitation behavior found in social insects – such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites – in which they carry away the dead bodies of members of their colony from the nest or hive area.
Many parasitoid wasps are considered beneficial to humans because they naturally control agricultural pests. Some are applied commercially in biological pest control, starting in the 1920s with Encarsia formosa to control whitefly in greenhouses. Historically, parasitoidism in wasps influenced the thinking of Charles Darwin. [3]
Necrophagous flies detect these dead bodies and body parts via minute traces of decomposition odor in the air. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Flies play a critical role in forensic science as they are often the first insects to discover and colonize human remains.
You’ve probably heard rumors about figs being filled with small wasps. Without the tiny bugs, the Ficus species, the producer of figs, would go extinct.
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'The smell has been so, so bad': Video shows blanket of dead fish inundate Greek port. Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY. ... “The smell has been so, so bad," Voulgaris told NBC News. "The whole sea ...
The "smell of death" research has been permitted as evidence in court. In the 2011 Caylee Anthony case, in which Casey Anthony was accused of having murdered her 2-year-old daughter, the scent from inside the trunk of the car in which she was accused of having stored a dead body was collected and then assessed by an expert witness. [7]
Cocoons of Cotesia species with the remains of a dead parasitized caterpillar Larvae of Cotesia glomerata emerging from a caterpillar of a Pieris brassicae butterfly. The adults of Cotesia glomerata can reach a length of 3–7 millimetres (0.12–0.28 in). This small braconid wasp is black, with two pairs of wings.