So you don’t like spiders? Well how about we meet the Assassin Bug, a merciless predator that stuns it’s prey and injects an enzyme that will liquefy the victim’s innards. After that tasty bugshake treat, the freshly drained exoskeletons are then attached the back of our little assassin to be used not only as […]
Tag: Bugs
Check out this poor guy
Here we have a very unfortunate day for the Cereal Leaf beetle. To the left, we see a parasitoid wasp called Tetrastichus julis, has laid it’s eggs inside the larvae of the beetle, which shall ultimately bring this vermin’s demise. The spawn will feast on the larva’s insides before bursting fourth and killing the […]
Some caterpillars for you
If the symbiote crashed to earth and melded with a caterpillar instead of spiderman, this is exactly what it would look like. Unfortunately, that’s not what happened and this is an actual not even a little alien-caterpillar roaming about. This bad boy is called a Brahmin-moth caterpillar.