Posted on 10/16/2023 10:40:24 AM PDT by allen592
Scientists in South America have made a remarkable discovery just in time for the spooky season. They have identified a new species of wasp that possesses a rather macabre method of hunting and feeding. These vampiric vespids inject their larvae beneath the skin of their prey, causing a slow and agonizing demise from the inside out.
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A real life Alien. See they do exist.
Nah, that’s just Bill Gates’s latest creation.
(And you thought Windows was bad...)
Yeah…I’m thinking it wasn’t the greatest idea to click on that link and see that.
I’ll bet the bass turds will all want to form a “union”.
We have wasps in the garden that’ll egg their eggs on the big ol’ fat tomato hornworms and the larva just eats ‘em up!. This is just another version of the screw fly.
Sounds like the Leftist ‘theology’ doesn’t it?
COVID had a good run. Murder Hornets pretty much plotzed. But vampire wasps. That has a nice ring. Let’s see if the rubes will give up some freedoms to be protected from vampires.
Spent a short time in Panama and got schooled about need for hats from the guys there.
Seems they have some sort of flying bug there does this sort of thing. Leaves a nasty scar once the larvae is out. They get the thing out by smothering the entrance hole with goop. Worm comes up for air and gotcha.
Creepy stuff.
TERRIFYING!
Tarantula hawks have been doing the same to tarantulas for eons. This is nothing new.
And now we have to be skeered of global boiling too...
The world is a vam-pire...
The ones that I find so amazing are the wasps that sting a spider, and the spider is somehow encoded with the design to spin a nest for the wasp. A nest the spider has never made before, but is designed for the wasp.
Back when “The Walking Dead” got started I did a search on examples of “zombies” for my kids. There were numerous examples. IMHO I think that rabies is another example. The rabies virus is adversely affected by water, and so a person becomes hydrophobic.
From the web:
So, why does the rabies virus cause hydrophobia? The virus is accumulated in the salivary glands of the host so that it can be transmitted to the next host, often through wounds inflicted by a bite. As the virus spreads through bites, drinking water or swallowing would decrease transmission (by reducing quantities of infected saliva present in the mouth). To prevent this, the rabies virus causes painful spasms in throat and larynx.
Feel free to drop in anytime, Capito, baby.
New? I have read that many species of insects do that to other species. I also remember the Screwworm fly, a bane to farmers and ranchers.
https://extension.umn.edu/beneficial-insects/parasitoid-wasps
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