Parasitoid infested caterpillar

A seemingly normal caterpillar in Sabah, Borneo, is overturned to reveal emerging parasitoids

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• caterpillar
• parasitoid
• infection
• parasite
• arlo
• pelegrin
• disgusting
• wasp
• hymenoptera
• lepidoptera
• insect
• infected
• borneo

[pot0tin]

KILL IT !!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!

[sorakairi1993]

Poor caterpillar, it isn't going to live to become a butterfly D:

[definingsoul]

Chills down my back

[Goldenbird94]

@fermista No, I mean when you take the caterpillars off the bush to raise them like I do every time they're there. They still get parasites in some of them and it annoys me to have to chip out the yellow stuff. >.<

[fermista]

@Goldenbird94 One way is for a parasitic wasp to lay its eggs in the caterpillar, by injecting them with its ovipositor. The eggs subsequently hatch parasitic larvae, which feast on the host.

[Goldenbird94]

Why does this happen??? O.o How the heck do the eggs get into the caterpillar?!? O.o

[reliablethreat23]

where those parasites or baby caterpillars???

[waffl3sk4t]

why do it was in my recommended list? o_O

[candycn13579]

ew... O.o

[jorgefromthefuture]

Relatively speaking, how would it feel to have twelve, 7 inch long,  3 inch thick squiggling goobers sucking your lifeblood out of your torso? Owwww D=

[curt349]

@ra2yuri4 yup cause of chemicals done 2 it by the parasites

[Mysticsloth]

@700007123 my thoughts exactly XD but i think it's too late...