If you study wasps, you’ll find that they very frequently have odd symbioses from species to species, most often as parasites/parasitoids or hyperparasites. Some even have symbiotic relationships with viruses that assist them in their parasitism - ichneumon and braconid wasps have symbiotic viruses called polydnaviruses.
If you wanna learn about some more wasp pollination, look up fig wasps (Agaonidae). Wasps are legitimately one of the coolest groups of animals.
Now tell me something nice about flies and mosquitoes so I don’t go on a murder rampage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_coevolution_in_Ficus
Indeed very cool, but also quite disturbing the more you learn about less common wasps…
Haha there’s a reason why the Xenomorph from Alien is in part inspired by parasitoid wasps.
i mean that’s a pretty unusual pollinator/plant relationship
If you study wasps, you’ll find that they very frequently have odd symbioses from species to species, most often as parasites/parasitoids or hyperparasites. Some even have symbiotic relationships with viruses that assist them in their parasitism - ichneumon and braconid wasps have symbiotic viruses called polydnaviruses.