#wasp requests

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!

Wasps within the genus Vespula are further grouped based on foraging behavior— V. consobrina is put on the same team as V. rufa, meaning they only go after insect prey and thus are not likely to bother humans (as opposed to the Vespula vulgaris group, which are scavengers and will go for basically any source of protein they can). In fact, studies have shown that V. consobrina only likes the freshest of bug meat and will reject any prey that they themselves did not kill.

Also "charming" is certainly a word to describe a wasp larva puppeting a corpse from the inside but ya know what? When you consider it from the perspective of how that larva is basically sacrificing it's own chance at surviving to adulthood for the sake of increasing its siblings chances then yeah. It is charming in a way