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One mountain in Brazil is home to a surprising number of these parasitic wasps

Thought to thrive in milder climates, many species of Darwin wasps apparently love the tropics too

A pinned speciment of a Darwin wasp with a brilliant blue body.

The brilliantly blue Pimpla caerulea is one of the Darwin wasps that researchers found living on the slope of a Brazilian mountain.

Kari Kaunisto/Biodiversity Unit/University of Turku

By Darren Incorvaia

The tropics are teeming with life, tending to hold far more species than milder environments closer to the poles. But one group of insects, the Darwin wasps, were thought to buck that trend.