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TIL tarantula hawk wasp larva creates a small hole in a paralyzed spider’s abdomen, then enters and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive. It emerges several weeks later as a wasp.
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Yeah, there is also different wasp breeds that specializes a particular breed of spiders, they honed their tactics to a degree such that their venom while effective against all spiders; is particularly effective against said breed they hunt.
On another note some spiders have been known on occasion to actually successfully fight back and in some cases kill said wasps.
Only nature can be so ruthlessly brutal and beautiful at the same time
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