"Killer Wasp" coloring book page
Added 2024-03-04 20:00:05 +0000 UTCThis month's coloring book image comes from our lesson, The bizarre world of parasitic wasps by Miles Zhang with animation by Denys Spolitak.
A cockroach and jewel wasp are locked in battle. The wasp latches onto the cockroach and inserts her stinger into the cockroach's brain, where her venom blocks its fight-or-flight response. Now, the cockroach is essentially a zombie, and its carcass will be used to grow the wasp’s offspring. Miles Zhang explores the gruesome evolutionary strategy known as parasitoidism.
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