The Amazing Bee-Parasite Research of Leslie Saul-Gershenz
October 17, 2017
From: Bug Squad [University of California/Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources]
Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Evolutionary ecologist Leslie Saul-Gershenz goes places where many have been but few have ever really seen.
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We remember writing about her work in April of 2013 when she addressed the Nor Cal Entomology Society (now folded) about her research on how blister beetle nest parasites cooperate to mimic the sex pheromone of a digger bee. She had just returned from the Mojave National Preserve, tracking the solitary bee Habropoda pallida and its nest parasite, a blister beetle, Meloe franciscanus.
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