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ground. This phase of the life cycle lasts more than a year, and then larvae develop into wingless asexual females that look completely different from their sexual parents. These crawl up the oak tree to lay unfertilized eggs on developing leaves. No males are required.
Males seem to always get the short end, don’t they? It’s a common theme in nature. If you have a choice, be a female.
Oak apple gall wasps of both sexes and all life cycle phases are stingless, so they dont bother people. Since they don’t really bother trees either, they don’t warrant much interference on our part But their wacky life cycles and chemical effects on plants have long interested scientists.
Herein lies an interesting tale. One of the greatest authorities On cynipid gall wasps is best-known as the father of sexology, the scientific study of human sexuality. Alfred C. Kinsey began his career as an entomologist specializing on cynipids. As a young college professor at Indiana University he traveled extensively throughout the United States collecting wasps and galls. He eventually collected over 5 million specimens and published several massive monographs describing hundreds of new species and their complicated life cycles. He
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