Hi pals! RJ again, starting off the day with #ThesisTuesday to share the incredible little organisms I study: ✨the insect order Strepsiptera✨! Their common name is the twisted-wing parasites 🌪️🪽, and they parasitize ~35 taxonomic families across seven other orders of insects. The twisted-wing parasites are an obscure little order that exist all over the world. 🌎 They develop within the abdomens of their hosts—I call them the bug-butt 🍑 parasites sometimes—and they appear like little lumps pe
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Hi pals! RJ again, starting off the day with #ThesisTuesday to share the incredible little organisms I study: ✨the insect order Strepsiptera✨! Their common name is the twisted-wing parasites 🌪️🪽, and they parasitize ~35 taxonomic families across seven other orders of insects. The twisted-wing parasites are an obscure little order that exist all over the world. 🌎 They develop within the abdomens of their hosts—I call them the bug-butt 🍑 parasites sometimes—and they appear like little lumps pe
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