[June 3, 2023: Staff Writer, The Brighter Side of News] An ant holds an oak gall containing wasp larvae. Researchers discovered an elaborate relationship among ants, wasps and oak trees. (CREDIT: Andrew Deans, Penn State) Penn State scientists, thanks to 8-year old Hugo Dean's curiousity, have discovered a new level of complexity in plant-insect interactions through a groundbreaking study that has turned a century of knowledge about the relationship on its head. The team was investigating ants
    • @sizzler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9•5 months ago

      Hmm, is it though?

      “Hugo’s father is Andrew Deans, professor of entomology at Penn State.”

      Well isn’t that a surprise.

  • ForestOrca
    2•5 months ago

    I was thinking this sounded so familiar. Article is dated June of 2023.