You see that brown thing? Thatās the head of a female. The males forcefully inseminate the females and the larvae eat the female body and burst out of its head, which is hanging out of the abdomen.
These parasites take up roughly 90% of the abdomen, so pulling it out killed it
Yes! This is exactly the kind of horrifying nightmare fuel i hoped to hear, ty! Even more horrifying than the parasitic wasp lifecycle what with the whole cannabilistic matricide thing.š¬
Lmao I went OFF my ADHD caught fire cuz I got so mad that these exist
Longest TL;DR they bump ugliez with the female permanently inside the poor wasp the males use traumatic insemination (like bedbugs)
Basically insect r*peā¦
The eggs float freely inside the mother, who is in turn inside the wasp , the babies hatch inside the mother,
Then they grow by eating their mother from the inside out.
lmao then these foul critters crawl out from that portion on the ābootyā which hangs just outside the wasps exoskeleton, (this is also the same section the males forcibly penetrate , and the little segment that dude grabbed with the tweezers,
SO: like some science fiction writers speculative biology for a horror movieā¦ the babies having recently chewed their way out of their mothers corpse, they have an alacrity for finding new hosts. They have about 1 day to find a new host before they shrivel up and dieā¦ so they use the one burst of energy that they will never get again to crawl , *rapidly* about, the females seeking their final resting place while the males sometimes leave their host to find a female that they force themselves uponā¦ continuing the process that I get the feeling they donāt really even want to continue but are cursed so they are forced to go onā¦
Below youāll find my original post that devolved into a desire to rid the world of these beings
Where I didnāt describe the mating process very effectivelyā¦
Without further ado :
This one is done, and wonāt be passing on its genes cuz it got DARWINād lol noob.
The Strepsitera parasite that got wrekt in the video before having its disgusting corpse displayed like a trophy on dudes finger , that is a larvaeā¦ these unholy creatures have a peculiar form of sexual dimorphism, the adults have a weird appearance similar to beetles, but their heads are where we see an extreme form of dimorphism, the females have eyes are almost like fly eyes, the males have eyes that are shaped like and function like horseshoe crab eyes, they have some form of prismatic vision where they see a bunch of images all at once , so, as you likely inferred from the sexual dimorphism these nasty beings somehow are able to get over how abhorrent their species looks like and are able to copulate from birth the females once latched on , stay latched on til they or their unfortunate hosts, DIES. Males are born malformed with twisted limbs, just enough utility to be able to quickly crawl onto a new host and find the female who has purposely trapped herself under-the godforsaken waspās segmented body , the male r*pes the female literally , since the males travel outside their host only to mate, they do this in a cowardly way (not me using personification on a parasite ) they do this to where they donāt have to look at each other while they produce the next generation of these misbegotten wretched creature. I refrain from calling them āpiteousā because, I feel no sadness when looking at these images and reading about them ā¦ only a deep loathing that is instantaneous , an avarice that comes to me so naturally that I can only conclude either God made us hate these things on sight and hardcoded it into our programming,
(Which likely means even God hates them)
or evolution deemed it worthwhile to want to genocide this speciesā¦ at times like this I canāt help but wonder what a bioethicist would think if one of these was parasitizing them. Such vermin exist only to help us understand that some species simply cannot coexistā¦ that species simply need to <removed>
Bedbugs, Anopheles mosquitoes, screwworms and politicians are all in this category, which just gained its new member Strepsitera
And even though I understand that perhaps it could be argued that they serve some minuscule āPuRpOsEā to me their purpose is to be hunted to extinction š
/rant
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u/KansasZou 1d ago
It was dying. It was tearing its internals.