Wednesday, November 04, 2020

Death from below: the first video of a parasitic wasp attacking caterpillar underwater

A very few species of parasitoid wasps can be considered aquatic. Less than 0.1% of the species we know today have been found to enter the water, while searching for potential hosts or living as endoparasitoids inside of aquatic hosts during their larval stage.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-11-death-video-parasitic-wasp-caterpillar.html