Parasitic Wasp

Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasp. It injects it's eggs into a host larva (hoverflys), and as the wasp grows it devours the host from the inside out. 😱

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[louisnicholls]

It’s not the wasp egg that grows. It’s the larva/larvae. They eat the insides of the host. The adult wasp will burst out of the pupa which the larvae shed into. Great video aside from that!

[nateking]

wow that thing is freaky looking. I’m amazed at the spiral formations on the leg armor, it’s really amazing that things can be that intricate and such a small scale. lovely short overall, informative and entertaining, keep it up🙏

[thunderatigervideo]

Who needs horror movies when we have the insect world? Which is REAL and crazy and terrifying. This isn’t even the worst or most unusual part of it.

[atlas]

Are you sure it’s not “Ovipositor”? Would make a lot more sense to me.

[kyleyoung]

My dyslexic ass read this "plastic wrap"

[usaturnuranus]

If only I had a dollar for every time I've told a parasitic wasp to keep its damned ovipositor to itself...

[nadaso]

Bruh my dumb ass read the title as plastic wrap 😭

[lildipper]

Isnt this the wasp that made charles darwin lose faith in god

[CarlytheWolf]

The neat thing is that stingers from insects, such as ants, bees, and wasps alike, are made from modified ovipositors, which is why you never see male specimens with stingers.

[samantoniak]

Really cool images. Is the colorization done with EDS data?

[enga-qsco]

The insect world is weird. I saw a documentary of a wasp laying eggs in a worm whilst fighting it in a near death battle. Then wasp gets away. Later the larvae bust open and the worm cares for the wasps lol

[BugTypeTrainer]

Well parasitoid technically is the correct terminology since the wasps always kill their hosts. A little semantical though ik

[evilferris]

Ovipositor rhymes with depositor. That 's' makes a 'z' sound.

[ArmedVacation]

Fun fact: this is what inspired the Xenomorphs in the Alien and AVP movies

[MrGuisda]

Humm… did my wife copy this wasp’s tactics or was it the other way around? 🤔

[gadielgonzalez]

How do you sound so calm while describing the most horrific thing in nature imaginable.

[blessedbeauty]

- Welp, that's one way to avoid carrying your baby.

[LivingTheDream]

Attorney: Did you, a parasatic wasp, have consent?

Wasp: How do you define consent? 🐝

[grumblycurmudgeon]

"Oh-vee-pos-uh-tor". Ovi- (meaning "egg"), -positor ("to place" or "to insert"). Like "depositor" or "repository".

Ovipositor. "That which inserts eggs".

[Sharkdogb]

The animal kingdom is seriously more alian than any alian show