Nina Fatouros

Het zijn piepkleine boomwants (Pentatomidae) nymfjes

16.07.2025 20:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

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...

07.07.2025 15:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

30.06.2025 15:47 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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.

09.01.2025 19:54 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Photo of some yellow butterfly eggs of the Large White, Pieris brassicae, with a tiny Trichogramma parasitoid sitting on the side. Photo by Nina Fatouros.

Photo of a tiny Trichogramma parasitoid hitching a lift on the head of a Large White butterfly female, Pieris brassicae. Photo: 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.

27.12.2024 10:25 — 👍 81    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 3

Today's Ritsema Bos Lecture by Anna Rosling at Wageningen University #fungi #ritzemabos #wurplant #plantscience

10.12.2024 16:25 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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… #ViewsMilestone

05.12.2024 20:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

05.12.2024 17:18 — 👍 63    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 1