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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

holy guacamole. The Lottery vibe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Fuck wasps

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago

Oh that's dark.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If that's a tomato horn worm, I'm on the wasps side...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Wow those are huge!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Hornworms are a delicious treat for any lizard large enough to eat them. Bearded dragons seem to love them. If you catch them and put them into a container with a food/water source anyone with a pet like that will happily pay you for them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But only a treat. Maybe theres been more science done in the past 5 years, but I remember them being basically junk food for lizards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Sure, wax worms and hornworms have a higher fat:protein content than is “healthy” for your captive lizard. A treat is exactly that, you should not feed them only snacks everyday just like your dogs or cats or yourself!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They also make a good first pet for kids because they're cheap and die fast anyways

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The worms or the kids?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Some context

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love the part where there's a virus that some wasps carry and inject with the eggs that suppresses the host's immune response

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Jesus always finds a way

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

That's the worst thing I've seen all month

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I just watched that video of the white cabbage larva with the smaller larvae exiting its body. Jeez, it's still alive after THAT? Life's rich pageant, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Jesus fuck

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry. "God made them this way".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Darwin disagrees.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

For context for everyone else: https://web.archive.org/web/20200405172817/http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2001/PSCF9-01Miles.html

Parasitic wasps that ate caterpillars from the inside out were one of the main reasons for Darwin to become increasingly skeptical of religion.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who loves all his creations.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Apparently some more than others, but the caterpillar just needs to have faith in a higher purpose.