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When parasitoids attack!

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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The Intriguing Relationship Between Parasitoid Wasps and Monarch Butterflies

This chapter explores how parasitoid wasps use monarch butterflies as hosts and feed on their chrysalis, highlighting the monarch's defense system against parasitoids and the unique abilities of terramalis casotis wasps to lay their eggs in butterfly chrysalids, resulting in multiple wasps hatching instead of a butterfly.

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