{"id":44487,"date":"2026-02-14T20:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44487"},"modified":"2026-02-14T20:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:46:43","slug":"parasitic-wasps-use-tamed-virus-to-castrate-caterpillars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44487","title":{"rendered":"Parasitic wasps use tamed virus to castrate caterpillars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"c-article-identifiers\" data-test=\"article-identifier\">\n<li class=\"c-article-identifiers__item\" data-test=\"article-category\"><span class=\"c-article-identifiers__type\">RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"c-article-identifiers__item\">13 February 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n                    A virus that became integrated into the wasp genome long ago is useful for subduing moth larvae.\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 13 February 2026 A virus that became integrated into the wasp genome long ago is useful for subduing moth larvae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[23088,23089,17683,23087,6384,23086],"class_list":{"0":"post-44487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-castrate","9":"tag-caterpillars","10":"tag-parasitic","11":"tag-tamed","12":"tag-virus","13":"tag-wasps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}