The “Death Valley Germans” is an incident of a family of four tourists from Germany who went missing in Death Valley National Park, on 23 July 1996. The family were discovered in 2009 by experienced hikers, Tom Mahood and Les Walker
Gall wasps produce a chemical that triggers abnormal cell growth in plants, causing the plants to grow these strange-looking structures around the wasp’s larvae; the structures then provide both shelter and sustenance for the larvae until they reach maturity
