Nasonia vitripennis males exhibit greater effort and competency in detecting hosts with conspecific females than other Nasonia males.
Taruna Verma, Bharat Kumar Sirasva, Satyajit Jena, Diptimayee Behera, Ambili Anoop, Ruchira Sen, Rhitoban Raychoudhury
This study shows N. vitripennis males can distinguish hosts with conspecific females from those with heterospecific females, while N. longicornis males can only do so against N. oneida parasitized hosts.
Royal Society Open Science · Nov 1, 2025Peer-reviewedZoology