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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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[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

[–] Knuschberkeks@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago

That's metal af, tbh.

[–] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 48 points 3 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.

[–] 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.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 60 points 3 days ago

AAAAAAAHHHHhHHHHhhHhHhHh.

That is all.

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Season 2 of scavengers reign please

[–] Jilanico@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That virus sounds useful for transplant patients 🤔

[–] Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Depends if the organs pop out after reboot or not...

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Imagine getting a kidney transplant and it eats its way out of you and turns into a giant wasp.

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This sounds like rule 34.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

Surely some furry artist did this already. Most likely with fascinating bodily proportions.

[–] troybot@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

You have to press F8 to reboot your immune system into safe mode

[–] warm@kbin.earth 15 points 3 days ago

fuck wasps

[–] Steve@startrek.website 9 points 3 days ago

Thanks I hate it

[–] wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 days ago

Burn it

[–] Townlately@feddit.nl 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You see this - are you tempted to pick them off?

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Every one of those pupae will hatch a wasp that will go protect another one of your tomato plants.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago

Nah, they're too small to make a decent meal of.