Links and Resources

New global estimate of insect diversity is published

Hari Sridhar interviews Raghavendra Gadagkar (published in Dialogue: Science, Scientists and Society. A must-read for all research aspirants

http://dialogue.ias.ac.in/article/8853/standing-conventional-wisdom-on-its-head

Here you’ll find some handy external links and resources.

Cockroach wasp intoxicates and zombifies a cockroach (posted by Neethu Sinu)

https://youtu.be/4ZI-hCPfZjM

“Nature’s battle: the manipulated host larva was made as a body guard of the braconid parasitoid (seed underneath of the caterpillar) to protect it from its hyperparasitoid (the tiny black wasps)” ©

Read Mohan and Sinu (2017) Plos One article for more details:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0178108