Nina Fatouros
@trichogramma74.bsky.social
Entomologist, Assoc. Prof. @WUR Biosystematics Group | Evolution of species interactions | #plant-insect egg interactions, egg #parasitoid host interactions, #plant receptor #insect ligand arms races, #symbionts #macrophotography
www.ninafatouros.nl
www.ninafatouros.nl
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Thanks to my students during the first-years Fauna course I could witness this giant #ichneumonid wasp Megarhyssa rixator in action, parasitizing the larva of a giant woodwasp inside the wood with her mega long and flexible ovipositor. #biodiversity of NL @w-u-r.bsky.social
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Just published! A new discovery in biological pest control: Synopeas ruficoxum, a natural enemy of the soybean gall midge in North America. 🧪🧵 doi.org/10.3897/jhr....
August 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Just published! A new discovery in biological pest control: Synopeas ruficoxum, a natural enemy of the soybean gall midge in North America. 🧪🧵 doi.org/10.3897/jhr....
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Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs
Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Nina Fatouros
How is this possible?
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
September 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
How is this possible?
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
Excited to share our Dispatch discussing how Trichogramma egg parasitoid wasps effectively use oviposition-induced plant volatiles in long-distance host location and quality assessment Agroecology: It’s about time for oviposition-induced cue use: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Agroecology: It’s about time for oviposition-induced cue use
Combining chemical analysis of herbivore oviposition-induced plant volatiles with
preference-performance assays reveals that parasitoid wasps effectively use these
compounds in long-distance host loca...
www.cell.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Excited to share our Dispatch discussing how Trichogramma egg parasitoid wasps effectively use oviposition-induced plant volatiles in long-distance host location and quality assessment Agroecology: It’s about time for oviposition-induced cue use: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
A nice collection of papers on herbivore detection in plants including our paper on the evolution of butterfly egg-killing in this virtual issue! @lottecaarls.bsky.social
Detecting the enemy or being manipulated by your attacker?
Check out this #Editorial introducing the #VirtualIssue ‘Herbivore-derived elicitors of plant responses’
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
Check out this #Editorial introducing the #VirtualIssue ‘Herbivore-derived elicitors of plant responses’
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
June 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A nice collection of papers on herbivore detection in plants including our paper on the evolution of butterfly egg-killing in this virtual issue! @lottecaarls.bsky.social
Reposted by Nina Fatouros
A word to the wise: we have only 27 slots left out of 200 in this GRC and Jan. 19 is the deadline to register. If you want to go, apply now and then you can register. Many steps. Despite the terrible fires in LA (my heart goes out to all of you in LA), we expect the conference to be held as planned.
Only about two weeks left to register for the Plant-Herbivore Interaction GRC! It was life-changing for me when I first attended in 2010. We will cover a lot of ground. There is only one session at a time and the atmosphere is rigorous and welcoming. Please repost this: www.grc.org/plant-herbiv...
2025 Plant-Herbivore Interaction Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Plant-Herbivore Interaction will be held in Pomona, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
January 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A word to the wise: we have only 27 slots left out of 200 in this GRC and Jan. 19 is the deadline to register. If you want to go, apply now and then you can register. Many steps. Despite the terrible fires in LA (my heart goes out to all of you in LA), we expect the conference to be held as planned.
Reposted by Nina Fatouros
Butterfly fact 6. Eggs, larvae and pupae are eaten by a host of predators. But their biggest killers are parasitoids that can kill 90%+. This astonishing photo by @trichogramma74.bsky.social shows a Trichogramma on Large White eggs. It hitches a lift on ♀♀. Details in Butterflies from Bloomsbury.
December 27, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Butterfly fact 6. Eggs, larvae and pupae are eaten by a host of predators. But their biggest killers are parasitoids that can kill 90%+. This astonishing photo by @trichogramma74.bsky.social shows a Trichogramma on Large White eggs. It hitches a lift on ♀♀. Details in Butterflies from Bloomsbury.
Reposted by Nina Fatouros
Today's Ritsema Bos Lecture by Anna Rosling at Wageningen University #fungi #ritzemabos #wurplant #plantscience
December 10, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Today's Ritsema Bos Lecture by Anna Rosling at Wageningen University #fungi #ritzemabos #wurplant #plantscience
Good news! Our study by Bassetti et al. on R-genes involved in butterfly egg-killing cell death in Brassica has received over 1,000 views since publication! Read it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…#ViewsMilestonene
December 5, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Good news! Our study by Bassetti et al. on R-genes involved in butterfly egg-killing cell death in Brassica has received over 1,000 views since publication! Read it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…#ViewsMilestonene
Thanks to my students during the first-years Fauna course I could witness this giant #ichneumonid wasp Megarhyssa rixator in action, parasitizing the larva of a giant woodwasp inside the wood with her mega long and flexible ovipositor. #biodiversity of NL @w-u-r.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Thanks to my students during the first-years Fauna course I could witness this giant #ichneumonid wasp Megarhyssa rixator in action, parasitizing the larva of a giant woodwasp inside the wood with her mega long and flexible ovipositor. #biodiversity of NL @w-u-r.bsky.social