Cocooned Wasps Jump To Shaded Areas To Survive | Video

Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 12:20 in Biology & Nature

A 3-mm B. anurus wasp lays its eggs in weevil larvae. The baby wasps hatch and consume the weevil larvae from the inside. Then, inside the empty weevil husk, they build a second ‘shell’, cocooning themselves inside the corpse.

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