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The fleas have fleas of their own. "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on."--Augustus De Morgan
Amazing animation as always, combined with an interesting, yet unsettling topic. The best way to learn is to pair them together! And people are more likely to remember creepy topics if they have such a great animation to accompany them too.
@@tonyb5492 Partially they got the idea from these. Another part of it was inspired when a writer had sever stomach pains, he describe it as something crawling out.
Because aliens are unknown. We have chemicals and clothing to protect us against insects, but an alien may be the size of car and can get through human technology.
I use to wonder why these types of wasps haven't driven their host prey extinct. It turns out, in addition to predators and parasites of their own, the host immune system can sometimes fight off the larva.
Well that, and many of these parasitoids are so specialized they rely on a single host species. So for stochastic reasons, they can't decimate their host species to zero.
Every second year I have purchased Trichogramma wasps to control the webworms in our trees. The wasps are tinier than a gnat. They do a wonderful job. They've also spread out so that our neighborhood is now webworm free. No chemicals needed.
I fell asleep to this video last night only to be woken up about a couple of hours later by a nightmare involving a huge insect, the size of a human child, trying to open my window. Thank you.
Also, the jewel wasp has to precisely plsce the egg on the roach's body because for a small larva the roach presents something like an impenetrable armor. The only way in is through a small point on his chest. Jewel wasps are artisans of torment.
@@sealofapoorval7437A brain surgeon too, when it injects the paralysing poison that goes into the brain, it can't be too much or the roach might die, nor it can't be too little or the roach might escape
My personal favorite is the parasitic wasp of the tomato hornworm; with a few of them around, I never have to worry about checking tomato plants for hornworms.
As horrific as the process is, parasitoids are actually pretty good pest control. Due to their reliance on a singular host species for reproduction, they pose less risk of becoming invasive, and effectivly target the intended pest.
It’s easy to tell that parasitoid wasps are one of the highest tier insects, and they parasitize many arthropods,(including other wasps), And so far in belief the only insects that don’t get targeted by parasitoid wasps are the smallest insects and, ectoparasitic maggots, Mainly for parasitic flies that attack humans,because those wasps will most likely end up being squished, before they even lay their own eggs on the parasitic maggots.
They are quite helpful considering they also target pests. I have treated a Flour moth infestation with darwin wasps in the past and will do so again if those moths return. They are so small you can hardly see them so you won't even recognize them doing their work and there is no need to clean up after them since they parasitize the eggs.
Honestly killing a host off after seems so wasteful… Are there any parasitoids that go out of their way to spare their victims for repeated future use?
There's a few species, but this is the best way, since they don't waste, they eat them all from the inside, basically it's an all you can eat shelter, that let you fully develop until you can defend yourself
I got obsessed with spider wasps when i read about parasitoidism in highschool. I even had dreams about them laying eggs in my legs. Now imagine if they decide “lets target humans because theyre bigger hosts”😂
This was incredibly interesting! If you don't mind me asking, how does the crypt keeper wasp make it so that the wasp it's parasiting makes a too small hole and gets stuck?
To be honest I've never had problems with anything bloody or wore-y but the narrators voice really didn't help the gruesome scene that was introduced to us viewers. What a horrifying parasite
Every summer I’m scared of wasps. My daughter last year in October last year it was dark evening and she was out and she sat on a log and all these wasp came out of this logs she had a lot of sting big red marks on her skin . It might of been worse if it were middle summer their very active in July and august
Just two days ago I was watching a documentary called "Evolve" and in it they said jewel wasp masses up cockroach dopamine system and since dopamine is important for movement and sansation the cockroache becomes paralyzed and btw not being able to make dopamine is also the cause of Parkinson's
crazy awful survival tactic.🤮🤮 this reminds me of those parasitic birds. but then again, I live in a parasitic environment, taking care of other's children in my own house
1:01 Some wasp can control the gender of her eggs depending on the prey she traps if its a big roach or spider it'll lay a female egg if ifs smaller its a male egg
Besides arthropods, the other animals parasitic wasps will attack are, Worms(mainly segmented worms, but not endoparasitic worms), Slugs and snails, And yes even small vertebrates, Mainly amphibians and certain reptiles, These kinds of wasps are often rare, and they are often found in Africa, Asia and Australia(but rarely Europe and the Americas). The most likely hosts other than arthropods are snails(since they have very strong shells, which makes a perfect nursery for parasitic wasp larvae).
Not all parasitoid wasps usually kill their hosts some ladybird parasitoids actually aren’t 100% fatal and the labybird can survive while some caterpillars are resistant to parastoid wasp attacks and the diseases the wasp uses.
