Creepy stories
The diversity and the most varied relationships of forms are the result of their interactions with the environment and their various situations. This constant and never ending race of living beings to dispute a place in the conquest of life has enabled Nature to unfold infinite variants in every situation, since time rushes inexorably on the path of evolution. The astronomical number of individuals allows an unimaginable source of tests, proofs, errors and successes to the most varied problems. An infinite laboratory led by virtually tiny forms anticipates the creation of all possible inventions, either imagined or to be discovered. And we can discovered the most strange ecological stories and cycles of live that seems out of fiction.
A caterpillar will not reach a butterfly. The parasitic wasp cleaves the soft cuticle of the caterpillar and injects into its body a batch of eggs. In that cavity the larvae that are born will thrive, feeding on their own live nursery. When its time arrives, the larva of the wasp will go outside, breaking the cuticle of its host by the flanks, and begin to weave the cocoon on the surface of the caterpillar itself. Once the metamorphosis is complete, the wasps have reached maturity and may leave, while their host will die irremissibly without going on track.
If we talk about a fight between two, the caterpillar could have some chance of winning, because it has an immune system capable of encapsulating and eliminating the eggs of the invading wasp before it inflicts permanent damage. But the wasp does not fight alone. In addition to eggs, it injects large amounts of viral particles. That viral infantry neutralizes very soon the immune response, decanting the faithful of the balance in favor of the wasp’s progeny. The caterpillar, parasitized, stops feeding, does not chrysalis and dies prematurely.
This weevil has a fungus growing inside and outside of it. Some of these funguses act as parasites, and they can change the behavior of the insect and drive them to a place with the environmental conditions they need to produce the reproduction structure and then disperse their spores… and the cycle starts again in another insect.
Here a dead wasp and infected by cordyceps fungi… a parasitic fungi … the insects that are infected are called “Zombies” in that case ZOMBIE WASP…because the fungi casts its mind control through bioactive compounds that interfere with the nervous system of the victim…
And we are not the only one that suffer with mosquitos and other similar insects while we are in the jungles. You can see this grasshopper with ectoparasites, like mites.
