{"id":778071,"date":"2026-07-22T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/778071\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:22:26","slug":"a-new-wasp-takes-a-famous-literary-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/778071\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Wasp Takes a Famous Literary Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Tuesday is Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s 127th birthday, and it turns out the author has picked up an unusual posthumous honor: A tiny iridescent wasp discovered in China now bears his name, per <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-wasp-species-ernest-hemingway-efforts.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phys.org<\/a>. Researchers working in the Xinjiang region identified the new wasp species and dubbed it Chlorocytus papahemii\u2014a nod to &#8220;Papa Hemingway.&#8221; You can see photos <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pensoft\/status\/2079475068287995988\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. The discovery came during research into a beetle that ravages sugar beet crops, and the Hemingway wasp plays a rather complex role in that.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        In the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/zookeys.pensoft.net\/article\/188643\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zookeys<\/a>, the research team from Xinjiang University, France&#8217;s CIRAD, and Russia&#8217;s Academy of Sciences laid out the chain: The weevil beetle Lixus subtilis destroys sugar beet crops. A different wasp, Eurytoma curculionum, attacks the larvae of the beetle. And the Hemingway wasp attacks the Eurytoma wasp. While that seems to ultimately help the beetle, the researchers say it&#8217;s vital they understand how all the pieces fit together if they hope to save the crops. As they write\u2014in a very non-Hemingway-like sentence\u2014&#8221;developing biological methods of controlling plant pests should be based on an understanding of real, comprehensive regulatory systems within complete food chains.&#8221;&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Tuesday is Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s 127th birthday, and it turns out the author has picked up an unusual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[249054,27615,79,45899],"class_list":["post-778071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-biological-control","tag-ernest-hemingway","tag-science","tag-xinjiang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}