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Agent Lemondrop reporting for duty to save your cereal! As a parasitoid of various stem destroying caterpillars that target big time commercial crops like sugarcane and grains, this wasp is happy to help out at any farm. In fact, a 2025 study has discovered that they've recently been branching out to parasitizing pests of banana plants as well.

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(August 29th, 2025)

Photo from Florida Museum of Natural History

Not a panda or an ant but actually a female wingless wasp! As with fellow velvet ants/mutillids, this hairy girlboss is capable of making squeaky warning chirps by means of stridulation (the act of making sound by rubbing often specialized body parts together). What sets the panda ant's war call apart however is that it is significantly louder, longer, and lower with ultrasonic attributes.

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LOOK AT HER IN HER BURROW

Cellophane bees are so cute

Found this girl trying to sunbathe but she's occasionally bothered by 1 or two wasps.

It's often stated that you can tell if a wasp is in the ichneumonid family easily by if it has an exorbitant amount of antenna segments. T. Circumflexum here has up to 57 on each antenna. What are they doing with all that antenna? Well females use them to feel up potential caterpillar hosts to make sure they're nice and hairless. She can be quite picky too, refusing to plant her babies in any host that doesn't have the right texture.

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ebony jewelwing

It's often stated that you can tell if a wasp is in the ichneumonid family easily by if it has an exorbitant amount of antenna segments. T. Circumflexum here has up to 57 on each antenna. What are they doing with all that antenna? Well females use them to feel up potential caterpillar hosts to make sure they're nice and hairless. She can be quite picky too, refusing to plant her babies in any host that doesn't have the right texture.

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The emerald cockroach wasp, also known as the jewel wasp, is able to target the exact spot in a cockroach's ganglion that basically controls its instinct to run away. With the roach subdued, the wasp will tug on the roach's antennae to lead it to its new home: a cozy little hole where it will simultaneously babysit and be eaten alive by the wasp's larvae over the course of roughly a week. Yay for bug on bug neuroscience!

She's beauty, she's grace, she'll make you forget the ability to escape