Host Age and Parasitism by <I>Tiphodytes gerriphagus</I> (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae), an Egg Parasitoid of Water striders (Heteroptera: Gerridae)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Larvae of Tiphodytes gerriphagus Marchal, a parasitoid of water strider eggs, are able to develop within Limnoporus dissortis Drake & Harris eggs that have undergone >80% of their embryological development. In laboratory studies, parasitoid development time was unaffected when young and intermediate aged eggs were attacked, but increased when old host eggs (6 to 8 d) were used. Likewise, wasp body size did not change significantly except for the oldest host eggs, from which significantly smaller wasps emerged. Old egg batches produced higher sex ratios (more males) than young eggs. This resulted from a disproportionate reduction in female eggs laid in the context of a marked overall reduction in parasitoid oviposition. Ability to parasitize over a wide range of host ages likely contributes to the high rates of parasitism observed in the field.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".