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[Ploid 3.0]

Humans have worms too, makes you eat more but they will never burst out of you and make you fight for them. They rather live in you foreva!

Cue pic of fish tongue replacer parasite.

 

[fader]

isnt there a plant or fungus that zombifies ants or something like that?

 

[cashman]

The best roach is a dead roach. These wasps are awesome.

 

[Rentahamster]

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

fascinating stuff, for all the wrong reasons

Nature is amazing. I can't really imagine what kind of evolutionary steps were taken for a wasp to develop venom that changes another animal's behavior so drastically.

 

[dragonlife]

Damn, that's so twisted it's awesome.

 

[B.O.O.M]

I think I read this recently in the Tera Formars manga

 

[Amensalism]

Reminds of the brainwashing cordyceps:
The Last of Ants

i remember learning about this one years ago in school... crazy shit

 

[freddy]

So this is how Off-Topic was created

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

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

fascinating stuff, for all the wrong reasons

Wow, that is amazing. Crazy how the caterpillar's behavior is altered.

 

[Otakumegane]

I think I read this recently in the Tera Formars manga

Plz.

 

[3phemeral]

There are also wasps that genetically engineer plants to produce plant balls called "Galls" that house their larvae.

Here's one that changed the fate of an acorn:

 

[Ploid 3.0]

Wasps are out of control. They can't be doing this much science without regulations. They are going to screw something up. I was ok with the insects but that poor tree, it doesn't deserve that.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Wasps are out of control. They can't be doing this much science without regulations. They are going to screw something up. I was ok with the insects but that poor tree, it doesn't deserve that.

Down with GMOs?

 

[Matt Attack]

Man, wasps suuuuck. I've never been more glad not to be a roach.

 

[Replicant]

All of my NOPES.

Now we know where Geiger got his Alien inspiration from.

 

[B.O.O.M]

Plz.

So kawaii

But no seriously..something like this was in there too right?

 

[Jaeger]

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

fascinating stuff, for all the wrong reasons

Someone needs to gif all the larvae bursting out at once from the caterpillar.

I'm just gonna leave this here.

Spoiler

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

Shit, that's wild.

 

[Permanently A]

parasites are absolutely fucking crazy

I am so glad there aren't any serious parasitic predators that prey on humans

 

[y2dvd]

Time to learn the secrets of venom mind control.

 

[sirap]

YES

fuck roaches!

 

[Lord Thrappleper The 49th]

Isn't this the plot for Resident Evil?

 

[Twilight Gap]

 

[PKrockin]

I like reminding people in these threads that it's not unlikely you also have a protozoan parasite influencing your brain and behavior.

 

[marvelharvey]

I like reminding people in these threads that it's not unlikely you also have a protozoan parasite influencing your brain and behavior.

“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.”

 

[Teknoman]

Isn't this the plot for Resident Evil?

Actually it's Dead Rising.

(Seriously, look it up)

I like reminding people in these threads that it's not unlikely you also have a protozoan parasite influencing your brain and behavior.

Heh I wonder how you would even know if you were being influenced. I guess family and friends could tell a difference, but then they might be being influenced. And now we have the plot for Body Snatchers.

 

[Currygan]

wasps are single handedly avenging us from these bloody cockroaches

show 'em, girls!

 

[thebeeks]

Yep, cockroach wasps.

Recently moved into a house with a pretty crazy roach problem (previous owners didn't mind having the little bastards skitter all over the place or were too inept to do anything about it, I guess).

Quickly learned cockroach wasps love our place.

We had the exterminator drown our house in pesticide so I don't see them around much anymore, but they're technically not wasps and they don't bother people, so they were okay by me.


Quick edit: Not sure why the article says they're only in Asia and Africa, plenty to be found in North Texas.

 

[Skittles]

I'm just gonna leave this here.

Spoiler

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

It's Muhammad Ali in bug form

 

[Bgamer90]

Amazing and scary at the same time.

 

[Zoon]

cool, it's just like alien but in real life.

 

[SliceSabre]

All I'm seeing is one less cockroach in the world, which is a good thing.

 

[Pakoe]

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

Holy shit

 

[Black Republican]

Wasps been running shit

 

[Chuckie]

t they're technically not wasps and they don't bother people, so they were okay by me.

Are you sure about that? It's from the suborder Apocrita, so I think it is a wasp

Quick edit: Not sure why the article says they're only in Asia and Africa, plenty to be found in North Texas.

It says mostly in Asia, Africa and Pacific Islands.

 

[ebullientprism]

Not a huge wasps fan but I HATE roaches. Enemy of my enemy I guess.

 

[Killua]

The roaches deserve to die these horrible deaths. Team wasps.

 

[leakey]

It's practicing on roaches before it moves onto to larger animals like humans.

 

[sixteen-bit]

wasps are assholes lol

 

[blakep267]

Wasps are really just assholes.

they really are. we need more bees to shake their bellies and cook them alive

so the wasps kill the roaches, bees kill the wasps, then aliens take the bees


anyway, is this how we finally get mind control going?

 

[dark_prinny]

Have you heard about insects politics?

 

[Dash27]

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

1:20 : "We're going to put a wasp and a roach into this area here and.... let them interact."

By interact of course he means let the wasp shoot the roach with zombie venom and then lay her egg and allow her spawn to eat the roach from the inside.

What's amazing to me is that the wasps just know innately how to do this. It instinctively injects an extremely precise sting into the roaches brain. Pretty crazy.

 

[Blargonaut]

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

fascinating stuff, for all the wrong reasons

 

[akira28]

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

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

That was after stinging him multiple times and making him write a book.

 

[j0hnnix]

 

[Protag]

Fuck nah.

Skin crawl to the max.

 

[John Kowalski]

So unethical.

 

[DyslexicAlucard]

I think a lot of the time people exaggerate this stuff. It's not "mind control" in the traditional sense, because it doesn't control thoughts or direct actions. It's more paralysis and stopping feeling, so that organs are preserved for as long as possible.

Still very cool, though!

 

[Fuu]

Didn't know wasps were such nasty motherfuckers. Fuck roaches though.

 

[n00bsauce87]

It's a bug-eat-bug world.

Should have been a link instead of an actual pic imo. Some people might vomit at their work desk

 

[PirateKing]

All those vids were amazing.