The Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps
“Pretty freaky”
by Sarah Zhang
Aug 20, 2018
2 minutes
Every year, and his students crisscross the country looking for odd, round things called galls that grow on plants. They are, essentially, plant tumors. Once you start looking, they’re everywhere. Egan stops at county parks, cemeteries, church parking lots, even the side of the road. It was on one of these trips, to Florida, that they picked up a gall unlike any Egan had seen
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