(Pocheon=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Do-yoon = The National Institute of Forest Science announced on the 6th that it has discovered a previously unrecorded species in Jeju, the "Doggerella chasanica" (pretend wasp), and reported it to the academic community. This species, which is found in the mainland, has been observed in Jeju for the first time. In particular, this discovery confirmed for the first time that the pretend wasp parasitizes the larvae of the "pine chafer beetle," a vector of pine wilt disease. The National Institute of Forest Science explained that this is an example of how the insect fauna in Jeju differs from that of the mainland. The National Institute of Forest Science, in collaboration with a research team led by Professor Kang Il-gu from Kyungpook National University, collected the pretend wasp from a pine forest in Jeju in 2019 and has since been studying its life habits. The pretend wasp parasitized the pine chafer beetle larvae, with an average parasitism ...