[June 3, 2023: Staff Writer, The Brighter Side of News] An ant holds an oak gall containing wasp larvae. Researchers discovered an elaborate relationship among ants, wasps and oak trees. (CREDIT: Andrew Deans, Penn State) Penn State scientists, thanks to 8-year old Hugo Dean's curiousity, have discovered a new level of complexity in plant-insect interactions through a groundbreaking study that has turned a century of knowledge about the relationship on its head. The team was investigating ants
Hmm, is it though?
“Hugo’s father is Andrew Deans, professor of entomology at Penn State.”
Well isn’t that a surprise.
It’s neat that wasps evolved to do this
It’s great that curiosity can lead an informed mind to take a different approach.
Not so convinced about the wasps being neat part!