>Genesis 3>6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.>Hitchhiker worms in fig trees use ‘perfume’ to find a ride on wasps, fly to safetythey are clearly adept at influencing behavior of other species.
>IISc researchers say the worms use volatile or gaseous chemical compounds, like a perfume, to recognise signals from waspsit targets females
>Female fig wasps are the sole pollinators of the fig plant, and thus play an important role in maintaining the ecosystem. If the number of nematodes per wasp is high, the researchers observed in an earlier study, it leads to adverse effects on the fig plant, like reduced size and seed number, as well as reduced lifespan of the wasp and the time it can fly. This can cause the fig ecosystem to collapse.>Even though there are six other wasp species that fly between the same trees, these nematodes have the ability not only to identify the exact species of pollinator fig wasps to hitchhike on, but to spot one particular set within this species.>It is this decision-making ability in two nematode species that the IIsc team set out to explorethey are aware of one another and can recognize whether a potential host os already infected
>The research group previously observed that these nematodes were able to choose their vehicles by checking how crowded the gut was with other hitchhikers, and if there were other members of its own species already presentthis is just one species
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