Today I learned on Nostr: TIL about ichneumon wasps, a family of parasitic wasps that lays their eggs in ...

TIL about ichneumon wasps, a family of parasitic wasps that lays their eggs in butterfly cocoons, spider nests, or into larger insects directly. The adult wasp paralyzes the hosts such that the ichneumon larvae can feed. After some weeks, the now-mature offspring then emerge en masse from the host

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumonidae
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