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The wasp's stinger is so well tuned to its victim that it can sense where it is inside the cockroach's dome to inject venom directly into subsections of its brain. The stinger is capable of feeling around in the roach's head, relying on mechanical and chemical cues to find its way past the ganglionic sheath (the insect's version of a blood-brain barrier) and inject venom exactly where it needs to go. The two areas of the roach brain that she targets are very important to her; scientists have artificially clipped them from cockroaches to see how the wasp reacts, and when they are removed, the wasp tries to find them, taking a long time with her stinger embedded in search of the missing brain regions.
21 posted on 01/10/2017 9:27:48 AM PST by MarMema
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Thanks for the link. Interesting that the banner ad at the top of the page encourages visitors to Britain and Norway, two major hosts of the Islamic parasite.


51 posted on 01/10/2017 1:44:37 PM PST by MurrietaMadman
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