Wasps Find One Way to Support Humans

This article is about Australian female wasps being able to paralyze a poisonous spider, the red back spider.  The female wasp drags the spider to a burrow and lays an egg on it, and then the larva has something to feed on when they’re born. The article describes that the study on wasps have been ignored completely. Just recently have scientist in Australia became interested in spider-hunting wasps. Little did they know in Australia it is more wasp-hunting spiders and wasps are keeping the poisonous spiders at low numbers. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/science/wasps-do-humans-a-favor-by-paralyzing-a-poisonous-spider.html?ref=science

http://www.csiro.au/Outcomes/Environment/Biodiversity/Redback-Spiders.aspx

Virgin Births May Be Common in the Wild

       This Article is about wild animals having virgin births. It is quite common for animals to have asexual reproduction with invertebrates, or animals without backbones. Scientist has only seen this happen in captivity not in the wild which makes this very rare with Pit Viper snakes. Genetic analysis reveals examples of this virgin birth with both the copperhead and cottonmouth. They found there was no genetic contribution from the father. 

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/15/virgin-births-may-be-common-in-wild/

http://www.biotopics.co.uk/genes1/asexual_and_sexual_reproduction.html

A New Kind of Monkey, With Colors That Set It Apart

            This article is about the newly discovered monkey called the Cercopithecus lomamiensi, or lesula. The lesula is an African Monkey with multi-colored hair. The chin is blonde, limbs black, and reddish colored back. The researchers found that the lesula lives in the central Democratic Republic of Congo. The first lesula discovered was a pet of a school girl. Researchers at first thought it was an Owl Faced monkey but became suspicious that this may be a new species because of the different colors. It has been confirmed that this monkey is distinct from other species after tissue samples were analyzed. Researchers feel the lesula could become endangered due to uncontrolled bush meat hunting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/science/a-new-kind-of-monkey-with-colors-that-set-it-apart.html?ref=science&_r=0moc.semityn.www

http://www.arkive.org/owl-faced-guenon/cercopithecus-hamlyni/