Author: Shao Ming
With the rapid development of modern science and technology, our lives have also undergone great changes, and thanks to the strength of science and technology, scientists have become more thorough in their research on nature.
If you think about it, if it weren't for the development of technology, we would not have been able to enjoy such a beautiful life today, and many of the strange things that happen in the world we can only explain in theology.
Previously, I often saw a netizen on the Internet asking such a question, will the parasite be parasitized by the parasite? Don't look at this question, it reads a bit awkwardly, a bit like a slip of the tongue.
But this topic has also been studied by many biologists. Scientists also want to find out whether there is also a parasitic relationship among parasites.
To this end, I have also consulted a lot of scientific literature and other biological reports and other literature. Finally, it is concluded that this situation is real.
To give you a common example, of course, most people still don't have a chance to see it. For example, an aphid has a parasitic chain.
"Aphid - Aphid Cocoon Bee - Aphid Cocoon Bee Long-backed Gall Bee"
You know what? Aphids are the fastest reproducing insects in the world, they can give birth from the moment they are born, and a single aphid can reproduce up to 30 generations a year.
According to scientists, if an aphid is allowed to reproduce normally with sufficient nutrients, it can replicate 1 billion aphids. What a terrible number. Therefore, aphids are also one of the most harmful pests of all pests in the world to various plants.
Because of the strong reproductive ability, so humans have no way to aphids, the only one who can restrain aphids is the aphid bees, the aphid bees will lay their eggs on the aphids, and then the eggs of the aphid bees develop themselves by absorbing the nutrients in the aphids.
However, the aphid wasp is also restrained by a creature, that is, the aphid bee long-backed gall wasp.
The aphid bee long-backed gall wasp will specifically look for the aphid bee parasitizing the aphid body, and then inject itself into the aphid, and then the larvae of the aphid bee will feed on the eggs of the aphid bee.
This is a very typical example, a phenomenon that is also known in nature as "double parasitism".
And scientists have found that there is not only the phenomenon of double parasitism in nature, but also the existence of "multiple parasites" parasites parasitizing parasites.
The world is so big that some "multiple parasitic" relationships are so complex that even scientists can hardly explain them. Because is there a parasitic relationship or a synergistic relationship between parasites and parasites? We don't understand it anyway.