Braconid wasp cocoons cover a hapless sphinx caterpillar. (Photo by Richard Crook/Flickr)
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Sounds like sometimes science fiction isn't always fiction, but science non-fiction. I wonder if this where they got some of their ideas for movies like Alien.
I had the typical hornworm caterpillar on a branch of my tomato plant, and, sure enough, it was host to those tiny wasps, which emerged as little white eggs on the host.
BUT THEN, before they could emerge from their eggs and fly away, a wasp swooped in and started eating the eggs! What's THAT about?
I do have the videos to prove it.
I wish I hadn't started reading this! Now I have lost my sleep.
The animal kingdom is fascinating
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Sounds like sometimes science fiction isn't always fiction, but science non-fiction. I wonder if this where they got some of their ideas for movies like Alien.
I had the typical hornworm caterpillar on a branch of my tomato plant, and, sure enough, it was host to those tiny wasps, which emerged as little white eggs on the host.
BUT THEN, before they could emerge from their eggs and fly away, a wasp swooped in and started eating the eggs! What's THAT about?
I do have the videos to prove it.
I wish I hadn't started reading this! Now I have lost my sleep.
The animal kingdom is fascinating
Thank you!
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