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Speaker describes parasitoid wasps' life cycle and virus partnership
Summary
At a Missoula Butterfly House lecture, former bug wrangler Brenna Shea detailed how parasitoid wasps lay eggs in or on hosts, how wasp-associated viruses suppress host immune responses and why parasitoidism differs from parasitism.
Brenna Shea, a former bug wrangler and education specialist at the Missoula Butterfly House, described parasitoid wasps and their life cycles at a public lecture recorded by Missoula Community Access Television.
Shea opened the segment by saying, “I want to start with parasitoid wasps,” and went on to explain that parasitoidism differs fundamentally from parasitism: “parasitoids ... it always ends up in death of the host, always.” The lecture covered the two broad forms—ectoparasitoids, which lay eggs on an external host and often paralyze it, and endoparasitoids, which lay eggs inside a living host and allow it to continue growing so larvae can develop…
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