A study on identifying new wasps co-authored by Prof. Alex Smith, Integrative Biology, was featured by CBC News July 15. Researchers found 20 new species of wasps in a remote forest in Costa Rica. Smith studies biodiversity and parasitoid insects (insects that eventually kill their hosts).
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