Awww, what a cutey. I've had the pleasure of meeting a pack of 7 cattledogs on a farm once, they were quite the circus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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Some of the caterpillars contained a parasitic wasp, Hyposoter horticola, which bursts from the caterpillar before it can pupate and become a butterfly. Living inside some of these small wasps was another even tinier, rarer parasite, a “hyperparasitoid” wasp known as Mesochorus cf. stigmaticus. It kills the parasitic wasp around the same time as the wasp kills the caterpillar, and emerges 10 days later from the caterpillar’s carcass.
Just another layer of this madness. I feel like we wouldn't exist without having nature produce us. And there are trillions of little carriers constantly floating around between us and through us.
10-15-2021, 09:19 AM
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