01/09/2026
Bark beetles aren't the only bugs packing fungi in their own built-in suitcases!
What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps, researchers report in Science.
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