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acquacow | 1 year ago

>Living inside some of these small wasps was another even tinier, rarer parasite, a “hyperparasitoid” wasp known as Mesochorus cf. stigmaticus. It kills the parasitic wasp around the same time as the wasp kills the caterpillar, and emerges 10 days later from the caterpillar’s carcass.

That's so metal...

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prmoustache|1 year ago

I would be that parastitic wasp, I would be afraid and even tinier one is ready to kill me right after I also kill the bigger one. How do you know which one is the last!

HansHamster|1 year ago

It's t̶u̶r̶t̶l̶e̶s̶ wasps all the way down!