Template:Did you know nominations/Ichneumon eumerus
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 12:38, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
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Ichneumon eumerus[edit]
- ... that Ichneumon eumerus is a specialist parasite of a rare butterfly, and will itself become extinct if the butterfly dies out?
- ALT1:... that the parasitic wasp Ichneumon eumerus has a complex life cycle involving ants and a rare blue butterfly?
Source: "the Alcon blue has a nemesis, the Ichneumon eumerus wasp. When the wasp detects an Alcon caterpillar inside an ant colony, it charges inside and sprays a pheromone cocktail that makes the ants attack each other. "
- ALT1:... that the parasitic wasp Ichneumon eumerus has a complex life cycle involving ants and a rare blue butterfly?
- Reviewed: Chase Winovich
Created by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 07:05, 18 December 2017 (UTC).
Size (barely!) and date check out; interesting topic; hooks check out (would suggest ALT1 as it's more interesting and more clearly verified, unless the gbooks page-limit hides the explict association-of-extinction with ref 5); check indicates no apparent copyplag concerns; QPQ done. This should be good to go. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:19, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
