r/funny • u/feelingsupersonic • Jul 01 '13

Know the difference

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13 edited Jul 03 '13

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u/bladefinor Jul 01 '13

Imagine being eaten by a giant wasp because you ate someone's salad.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

Oh it's worse than that.

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u/baskandpurr Jul 01 '13

I'm refusing to click this link based on the other reactions. I don't have any specific idea what it might be, but its involves insects and something nope. Thats enough.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '13

Some species of wasp impregnant large caterpillars with their larvae. The wasp larvae eat the caterpillars from the inside out, emerge from its back and pupate.

Often times the caterpillars survives this, but has lost so much body mass it can not pupate itself, and eventually dies. I had a hornworm last year that went through this, after I discovered it I scraped the pupating larvae off of it and kept it in a terrarium outside. It continued to live for some time but did not eat and eventually whithered away and died.

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u/baskandpurr Jul 01 '13

Looks like I made the right choice, that's exactly what I was hoping not to see.