Wasps are an ingenious family among the insects
30,000+ Species
many with very sophisticated means of capturing the biochemistry of other species and getting hosts to make things for them
Galls on branches
Masses of chaos amidst leaves growing into wasp nests
Inside of a caterpillar, laid when the caterpillar was an egg
Laying dormant or just growing slowly
Waiting for the moment
Often as the caterpillar pupates
It has eaten and made as much protein as it is going to
The wasp kicks its chemical warfare into action
An Orb spider suddenly starts making a cocoon for the wasp that will eat it
WASPs take over whole systems of the organism and consumes it.
Then pupate and emerges as an adult wasp on the hunt for something to parasitise
The ovipositor is that great big thing most people think is a sting.
Sometimes it is a sting
Again with chemical warfare to either piss you off or kill you.
But often it has no poison but is design to insert eggs into the right cells and tissue of various plants or insects.
WASPs are excellent parasites
They have their place in ecology
usually kept in check by something that eats them.
Sometimes other WASPs
Their populations pulse in harmony with the natural systems
Just imagine if one mutated to feed on humans to make a cyst that just kept on producing more wasps,
Little ones, you could hardly see them but their biochemisty would take over you brain.
The great zombi WASP pandemic of 2022...
it first spread through fossil fuel board rooms
making them gorge themselves into obesity on their hoarded riches....
The last thing our world needs is another episode of colonialism with a pandemic of WASPs thinking they can put the world into their service.
WASPS make dangerous parasites
...but...
they spend much of their life dependant on a host
Feeble easy food without defence for those who learn how to hunt it.
Decolonisation starts with identification of the parasite
Hosts have immune systems
To the tree a WASPs life cycle is short and all that is left in later years is a small scar
seasons cycle round and balance returns in a spiral of life given time
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