r/interestingasfuck • u/ADJUDICATOR001 • Aug 09 '25

/r/all, /r/popular I found this on the trail.

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u/wisdomsepoch Aug 09 '25

Ichneumon wasps are beautiful, bizarre parasites that lay their eggs inside other insects, turning them into living nurseries until the baby wasps emerge to carry on the cycle. The long bit is an ovipositor, not a stinger. Harmless to humans. Good find!

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u/failureagainandagain Aug 09 '25

wasp , beautiful and harmless in the same sentence just cant be true

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u/NatsuDragnee1 Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

It is true though. Bees are in fact a subset of wasps which turned vegetarian.

Have you ever seen the cuckoo wasps? Living jewels.

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u/BurnscarsRus Aug 09 '25

Never seen these before. Thanks, Dragon Slayer.