{"id":118377,"date":"2026-01-26T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=118377"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:01:09","slug":"claws-that-snap","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/claws-that-snap\/","title":{"rendered":"Claws That Snap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Adrian Smith \u2013 Head of the Museum\u2019s Insect Research Lab and creator of the Ant Lab channel \u2013 recently filmed the attacks of dryinid parasitoid wasps (<em>Gonatopus<\/em> sp.) on their prey\/hosts \u2026 hopper nymphs. The footage is the first of its kind and is part of a new study describing the anatomy, kinematics and behavior of these killer parasitoid wasps.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9osTBzQ0zbk\">Watch the Video<\/a>] | [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.64898\/2025.12.19.695056v1\">Read the Paper<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":118378,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/118377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/118377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118380,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/118377\/revisions\/118380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}