Ladybird made into 'zombie' bodyguard by parasitic wasp
A parasitic wasp protects itself from predators while cocooned by turning its ladybird host into a "bodyguard".
After a female wasp injects its egg into the ladybird, the larva munches on its host's internal tissues before breaking out through the abdomen...(contd)
All things bright and beautiful...
"...anyone who says it’s “just the Internet” can . And then when they come back, they can again." - Tigger
I kept a ladybird prisoner for a couple of weeks just to see how it'd manage in a deprived environment of a plastic bottle - went crazy inthe end, running really fast round and round - I had to let it go, what a tale it'd tell the other ladybirds about it's alien abduction?
devogue wrote:For fuck's sake - first it's ducklings, now it's ladybirds. What next? Crocodiles raping labrador pups?
I hate nature.
Rule 34
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
-Mr P
The Net is best considered analogous to communication with disincarnate intelligences. As any neophyte would tell you. Do not invoke that which you have no facility to banish.
Audley Strange
Ladybird made into 'zombie' bodyguard by parasitic wasp
A parasitic wasp protects itself from predators while cocooned by turning its ladybird host into a "bodyguard".
After a female wasp injects its egg into the ladybird, the larva munches on its host's internal tissues before breaking out through the abdomen...(contd)
All things bright and beautiful...
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
. And then when they come back, they can
