By Carl Zimmer
It is as astonishing as it is sad to watch a ladybug turn
into a zombie. Normally ladybugs are sophisticated and voracious predators. A
single individual may devour several thousand aphids in a lifetime......Dinocampus
coccinellae, is about the size of an ice-cream sprinkle. When a female wasp
is ready to lay an egg, she alights near a ladybug and swiftly inserts her
stinger into its underside, injecting an egg into her victim along with a blend
of chemicals. When the egg hatches, the larva feeds on the fluids that fill its
host’s body cavity.
Though the ladybug is gradually being devoured, on the
outside it seems unchanged…. Some three weeks later, the wasp larva has grown
so much that it is ready to leave its host and develop into an adult. It
squirms out through a chink in the ladybug’s exoskeleton.
Even though the ladybug’s body now is free of the
parasite, its mind remains enthralled. As the wasp larva wraps itself in a silk
cocoon beneath it, the ladybug remains immobile.
From the wasp’s point of view, this is a very positive
development. A growing
D. coccinellae wasp nestled in its cocoon is
intensely vulnerable. Lacewing larvae and other insects will happily devour it.
But if one of these predators approaches, the ladybug will thrash its limbs,
scaring off the attacker. In effect it has become the parasite’s bodyguard......
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My
Take - Well....that explains the left’s irrational desire to defend and support
radicals, jihadists, degenerates, criminals and mass murderers like
Castro. Anyone or anything that represents the traditional values that make society stable, safe and productive. They're buggy!
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