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And you thought your day was going poorly (europe.pub)

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Those white things are wasp larvae eating this manduca caterpillar from the inside out.

Parasitic wasps lay their eggs in it. The eggs are coated with a virus that temporarily turns off the manduca's immune system. When it's immune system reboots, it is tricked into thinking that the eggs are part of the caterpillar. The eggs hatch, and they eat their way out and turn into pupae and the cycle repeats.

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[–] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 48 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Anyone who has grown tomatoes before really appreciates the wasps. The hornworm caterpillar can devastate your tomatoes crop. It's probably a terrible way to go for the caterpillar, but they are real pests.

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 102 points 4 days ago

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

The little bitty wasps that parasitize the oleander aphids on my milkweed are some of my best buddies.

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago

The wasps are fine until you unwittingly jam a weed puller into their ground nest. They don't like when you do that.