Surround the homosexual corpse to protect yourself

Humans - and most animals - don't 'cuddle' the corpse.

However, not aphids. The insect is closely linked to dead species of the same species as a way to avoid parasitic bees, a new study suggests.

A parasitic bee usually lays eggs inside an aphid.After hatching, baby bees eat aphids from the inside out before breaking and flying away.

Usually, when non-predatory animals, such as deer or rabbits, meet dead animals, their instinct is to run away.

That is why Yannick Outreman, of Agrocampus Quest University, France, and colleagues have argued that aphids will do the same thing when the bodies of the same species were killed by parasitic bees.

Aphids reproduce quickly and can produce wings without wings or wings - scientists do not really understand this mechanism. When habitat is threatened by bees, Outreman thinks that aphids will quickly produce winged birds that can fly to a new location more safely.

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The researchers commented in their paper that they believe that a 'chemical clue' emitted from aphids will stimulate reproduction of winged offspring. They added: 'Further experiments need to be done to be able to correctly identify this clue'.

However, the aphids have produced a wingless baby.

Outreman said: 'We found that parasitic bees often fly over aphids, and fly near to check if the corpses are no longer there.'

Outreman further explains: 'When bees see the aphids, they think this area has been used by other bees, and therefore do not notice'.

The team found that the close-to-dead aphids of the same species were attacked 30% less than the non-dead tree aphids.

Researchers believe that living close to the same body increases the chances of survival of an individual aphids and the presence of homosexuals is an aphid stimulus that acts like that.