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My head kind of hurts, now that you mention it.
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Parasitoid animals are seriously creepy but cool. There is one species of wasp that stings a cockroach to immobilize it, then injects a substance to get its legs moving again, but only under the control of the wasp. Then the wasp walks the cockroach by the antennae like a dog on a leash back to a little hole in the ground. The cockroach's metabolism is then almost shut down thanks to the wasp's neurotoxin but keeps it still alive where the wasp lays eggs. The larval wasps then eat the immobilized cockroach alive. YUM! Neuroethology is fascinating...
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I like the Phorid Fly. It is being used experimantally to eliminate/control fire ants. The more fire ant heads they gnaw off, the better!
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Yes, I remember fire ants all too well when I lived in Georgia. I hope the phorid fly works better than some other species introduced to control pests or just to make the land look pretty like kudzu and starlings. :evil:
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Yeah, we humans are good at mucking things up with our "we-know-better-than-Mother-Nature" attitude. We brought the stupid fire ants here to begin with. :roll:
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If Woody posts something that HE says "yuck" about, there is no way in heck I'm gonna look at it.Woody Taylor said:
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Entomology porn! What next?! :lol: :lol:
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This one gave me the shivers.Woody Taylor said:
("Weird" from Woody -- I'll look. "Yuck" from Woody means well beyond yuck for normal people. Or for me. Whichever. :lol: )
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