WhistlingBadger
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Well, baby wasps gotta eat too!"Larvae of the Green Tiger Beetle are parasitized by the solitary wasp Methoca ichneumonoides. This means that the wasp lays its eggs inside the Green Tiger Beetle’s body. The female wasp is smooth and slender in shape and this enables it to survive being gripped by the larva’s strong mandibles. The wasp then stings the Green Tiger Beetle larvae to paralyse it and she then inserts an egg into the larva’s burrow. When this egg hatches the wasp larva can feed off the beetle larva in the safety of its own burrow."
Cool! Sort of like mud daubers, and baby spiders!