This Wasp Mind-Controls Spiders While Eating Them Alive

Published on April 12, 2017

Scientists don’t know exactly how the larva of the Reclinervellus nielseni wasp mind-controls spiders into building a special web to protect it but they do know that they eat their hosts and steal their webs.

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This Wasp Mind-Controls Spiders While Eating Them Alive

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