{"id":2136,"date":"2013-02-22T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2013-02-22T12:46:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:46:36","slug":"fruit-flies-force-their-young-to-drink-alcohol-for-their-own-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/22\/fruit-flies-force-their-young-to-drink-alcohol-for-their-own-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit flies force their young to drink alcohol for their own good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When fruit flies sense parasitic wasps in their environment, they lay their eggs in an alcohol-soaked environment, essentially forcing their larvae to consume booze as a drug to combat the deadly wasps. The finding adds to the evidence that using toxins in the environment to medicate offspring may be common across the animal kingdom.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sciencedaily\/~4\/553YyOM3vUk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>via ScienceDaily: Latest Science News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2013\/02\/130222102958.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2013\/02\/130222102958.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When fruit flies sense parasitic wasps in their environment, they lay their eggs in an alcohol-soaked environment, essentially forcing their larvae to consume booze as a drug to combat the deadly wasps. The finding adds to the evidence that using toxins in the environment to medicate offspring may be common across the animal kingdom. via &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/22\/fruit-flies-force-their-young-to-drink-alcohol-for-their-own-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fruit flies force their young to drink alcohol for their own good&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[50,6,96],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-author-unknown","tag-ifttt","tag-sciencedaily-latest-science-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-ys","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}