Support NeoGAF

[longdi]

This parasitic marvel enslaves cockroaches by stinging their brains in ridiculously precise spots and injecting mind-controlling venom. The wasp then leads its zombified roach to a chamber, where it lays a single egg on its perfectly relaxed host and seals it inside with pebbles. Here the larva bores into the cockroach and feeds off its organs before killing it and emerging from its corpse into the light of day.

This is nature’s own Orkin Man — if the Orkin Man was psychologically imbalanced and just a little too excited about his job, and didn’t have all the wings and stuff. But just think of the evolution involved here. The jewel wasp has over millions of years not only developed a mind-control drug, but an astonishingly methodical brand of brain surgery to deliver it.

http://www.wired.com/2014/02/absurd-creature-of-the-week-jewel-wasp/

Saw this interesting article in my FB.

I hate roaches.
I hate bugs
Why God create the bugz?

 

[HUELEN10]

NOPE


Seriously, no; I actually feel bad for the roach.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

Why.

 

[AppleMIX]

Nature is so fucking cool.

 

[nasax]

Would you eat it if it was covered in chocolate?

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

I hate cockroaches and do not hesitate to kill them but this is just unsettling.

 

[HoopzBarkley]

Can bugs get any worse.

 

[BlackBuzzard]

NATURE YOU SCARY!

 

[Mix Master]

IRL chestburster

 

[Plywood]

god create the bugz 2scareU

 

[googleplex]

It was a wasp like this that convinced Darwin God didn't exist.

At least that was a story I've been told.

 

[PeregrinSe7en]

Nature is so fucking cruel.

fixed

what a terrible way to go

no bug deserves to die like that

 

[sfedai0]

Wasps are really just assholes.

 

[GK86]

Is there video of this in action?

It blows my mind that the wasp can be so accurate. Especially since I'm assuming the roach isn't standing still for all of this.

 

[AppleMIX]

Is there video of this in action?

It blows my mind that the wasp can be so accurate. Especially since I'm assuming the roach isn't standing still for all of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyd8NmLJwcM

 

[ComputerMKII]

 

[longdi]

Is there video of this in action?

It blows my mind that the wasp can be so accurate. Especially since I'm assuming the roach isn't standing still for all of this.

yes, just scroll further down the article

 

[Teremap]

Funny to see all the people sympathetic to a bloody cockroach.

FYI those things barely even have a nervous system to speak of. They don't feel a damn thing.

 

[ElTopo]

IRL chestburster

Dan O'Bannon (one of the screenwriter's of Alien) said he was inspired by a species of wasp that does this.

 

[BlackBuzzard]

TLOU 2 now featuring giant wasps.

 

[Cosmo Clock 21]

It was a wasp like this that convinced Darwin God didn't exist.

At least that was a story I've been told.

Funny, I probably would have been convinced of the exact opposite

 

[GK86]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyd8NmLJwcM

Thanks!

That was beyond interesting. Amazed at how they bring roaches down. As much as I hate roaches, I feel sorry for them being eaten alive.

yes, just scroll further down the article

Ahh, on my phone and the site was taking long to load for some reason.

 

[rokkerkory]

Aliens?

 

[Ultimadrago]

Fuck roaches.

Fuck wasps.

And dammit, just reading the title of the thread made me shake my head "Nope. Nope. Nope."

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyd8NmLJwcM

Thanks was about to sleep.

 

[Jaeger]

I love nature. Bravo.

 

[YesNOnoNOYes]

NIGHTMARE FUEL :<



noooooooooooooooooooooo >____<

noooooooo no no no no no no NOOOOOO

whyyyyy D:

 

[keuja]

Well done wasps! I hate cockroaches.

 

[Imperial Bishop]

These horrific insect threads are the bane to my existence.

 

[Jaeger]

This must be how Giger and Scott got the lifecycle for the Alien.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

Yeah these mind control wasps are cool, there's also a caterpillar that cloak's it's larvae with ant larvae smell, and a wasp use this to raise it's young inside of the larvae.

http://youtu.be/SLvuevf__Ok

Pimp my larvae.jpg

It's sort of like mind control. Wasp uses AOE spell, mass confusion. Ants attack each other, plants egg inside of the cloaked moth larvae and mission complete. Ant hack, hidden in plain sight.

 

[longdi]

I think in some other galaxy there are insects the size of a puppy where they enslaved the mammal population there to lay eggs. We should fear if somehow their eggs got mixed into some meteor and crash landed on our Earth.

 

[robotrock]

i won't have good dreams tonight

 

[Morrigan Stark]

I hate cockroaches. Vilest creatures on Earth.

On the other hand, I also hate wasps. I'm not phobic, but I bristle every time one hovers around me. Horrible pests. And this... this is just pure evil. Yikes.

Never thought I'd say this, but I think I'm gonna side with the cockroach. Seriously, that's nightmare fuel.

 

[VanillaCakeIsBurning]

Not as disturbing as mango worms.

 

[Cameron122]

Nature don't give a fuck

 

[Nephtis]

I'm just gonna leave this here.

Spoiler

venom is so potent the tarantula basically vomits its own venom because it hurts so much

 

[Royal Guacamole]

No room for decency in these demented assholes.
This is why they're small.

This planet would be obliterated by aliens otherwise.

 

[Pathos]

WHAT THE FUCK
mother of god... brain controlling venom? jeez

 

[Hachimaki]

Watching the video that was linked in the article definitely made my skin crawl.

 

[lonedigitalwolf]

Blackie Lawless and Co. Are ruthless.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Reminds of the brainwashing cordyceps:
The Last of Ants

 

[YesNOnoNOYes]

I sort of lost it at the part where "it feeds off the roaches' internal organs"

:<



HALP

 

[Robot Pants]

God seriously fuck bugs

 

[abuC]

LOL, that is so fucked up, I'm glad they aren't the size of cats or we'd be in some trouble.

 

[blitzcloud]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs

fascinating stuff, for all the wrong reasons

 

[Ploid 3.0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs

fascinating stuff, for all the wrong reasons

I remember this one, so sad, such a cruel world out there.

 

[Jorav]

There are plenty of parasitic wasps out there. They lay their eggs in everything from caterpillars and beetles to even spiders.

 

[longdi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs

fascinating stuff, for all the wrong reasons

they have those cute tiny teeth!

fuck poor caterpillar.
evil enslaving wasps.

fear the day they evolved to para-sited humans, we are doomed!

 

[Ferrio]

I'm just gonna leave this here.

Spoiler

venom is so potent the tarantula basically vomits its own venom because it hurts so much

Decided to google the wasp..

The female tarantula hawk captures, stings, and paralyzes the spider, then either drags her prey back into her own burrow or transports it to a specially prepared nest, where a single egg is laid on the spider’s abdomen, and the entrance is covered. When the wasp larva hatches, it creates a small hole in the spider's abdomen, then enters and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive. After several weeks, the larva pupates. Finally, the wasp becomes an adult, and emerges from the spider's abdomen to continue the life cycle.

Jesus.