2023-10-14 14:26:51
Scientists discover new wasp species. (Picture/reproduced from Twitter)
Scientists have discovered a new terrifying species in the Amazon. The female “alien wasp”, which is only 1.7 centimeters long, will implant eggs into the victim’s body through its spiked egg-laying organs. As long as the larvae break out of the eggs, they can Enjoy a “big meal” from the inside out.
Brandon Claridge, a researcher on the project from Utah State University, told “Live Science” magazine that this deterrent, whose scientific name is Capitojoppa Amazonica, comes from the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve in Peru. Human wasps often choose caterpillars, spiders or beetles as hosts. After the female wasp climbs onto the host, she will frantically touch the host with her tentacles. Once she is sure that she can parasitize, she will implant a single egg into the host.
This wasp has a unique egg-laying organ. (Picture/reproduced from Twitter)
Kelechi pointed out that instead of the larvae “eating” each other to death from the host’s body and staying in the body to continue eating, if the bee colony finds that the host has been pierced by the same kind, then “swarms” to the host’s body and frantically sucks the hemolymph ( The scenes and habits of systemic circulation fluids similar to vertebrate blood are even more horrifying.
The team also found that females have the habit of stabbing the host with their egg-laying organs and then sucking blood when they are not laying eggs, presumably to obtain the nutrients needed for the eggs to mature. Kelechi also revealed that the Alpabayo-Mishana Reserve is the most biologically diverse area on earth, and this new species of wasp is just one of the 109 newly discovered species.
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