[wastedyears]

Great, at 3am. Groooooss

[JRandomFreeper]

Nor is mind control very extraordinary for parasites.

That explains the Obama win.

/johnny

[Lazlo in PA]

Looks like these wasps are the Democrats of the bug world. Freeloading filth.

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[Post Toasties]

Here in northern Illinois, we have some kind of mutant ladybug that will bite like a biting fly if it lands on you.

[DemforBush]

The parasitic wasp Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga, for example, lays its eggs in the spider Plesiometa argyra. The larvae then eat their way out of their host.

IIRC, Ridley Scott based part of the lifecycle in Alien on that particular wasp (i.e. the whole "chestburster" thing).

[Sea Parrot]

Tarantula wasps give me the willies for same reason.

[ViLaLuz]

I had a Monarch caterpillar I watched get “stung” by a little wasp. Weeks later when the caterpillar went to make a chrysalis, a little white worm burst out of it’s body, crawled across my desk and fell on the floor. I was about 10 at the time and horrified.

[married21]

I think our revulsion at bugs like this shows that God made us for better things and a better place.

[Rebelbase]

“the ladybug survives as a wasp larva emerges from its abdomen and begins to weave a cocoon between the ladybug’s legs. That’s right: The ladybug is a zombie. “

Etymological metaphor for the welfare class and taxpayers.