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The Wasp That Lays Eggs Inside Caterpillars and Turns Them into Slaves (2014)
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- spiffyk 2y agoNothing to see here, just a real-life Xenomorph from the Aliens franchise. Absolutely not scary or anything.
- wruza 2y agoWhew, there’s much more in the article than what the title suggests, if you’re thinking “meh, wasps are known to be parastic”.
- throwanem 2y agoIf you like this, you're going to love Polydnaviriformidae, the family of host-behavior and -immune-system manipulating viruses that's mutualistic with a couple of families of wasps - who vertically inherit the entire viral genome mother to daughter, along with that of a unique glandular bioreplicator - and, unless there's a somewhat new result in viral phylogenetics, not very closely related to anything else known in nature.