Emerald cockroach wasp: Using poison, turns cockroaches into obedient zombies that feed its offspring (6 photos)

Yesterday there was a post about black cockroaches - special forces from the world of pests. But insects have their own super-heroes who can protect us from the invasion of hordes of Stasiks. Meet the emerald wasp, a graceful exterminator with extremely specific methods of operation.

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The emerald wasp, like the black cockroach, is native to Asia. This insect doesn't look much like a killer. Refined physique, small size (up to 2 centimeters) and chitinous armor with a metallic sheen. With such parameters, it’s time for her to become a model. But she chose a path filled with hemolymph, an analogue of blood in insects.

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The emerald wasp also lives throughout the equatorial belt: in Africa and on some islands of the Pacific Ocean.

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The wasp kills cockroaches - its main prey - mercilessly. Adults terrorize the young: having discovered the target, the predator paralyzes it with a precise injection and devours it alive. Apparently, all Asians, regardless of species, have a special gastronomic predilection for Stasik... But these are flowers. The berries begin when the emerald wasp intends to have offspring. For the sake of her children, she not only kills cockroaches, but turns them into zombies.

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In addition to cockroaches, the wasp also feeds on flower nectar. But insects are their main prey.

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To do this, she finds an adult cockroach and strikes directly at the insect's nervous system. This is how the predator paralyzes the motor center of its prey. The cockroach remains conscious and continues to feel everything that happens to it, but it is no longer able to control its movements. Now his every move is controlled by a wasp.

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Thanks to this, cockroach wasps, despite the huge difference in size, easily transport the victim - they lead their prey by the whiskers, like a bridle. The goal of the predator is to drag the cockroach into a pre-prepared hole. There she will attach an egg with its baby to the insect’s body and wall up the entrance with pebbles.

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It’s not hard to guess what awaits the poor guy next. The hatched larva invades the victim's body and begins to eat it. The young wasp devours the entrails in such an order that the prey remains alive and its flesh fresh. The cockroach feels everything that happens to it, but cannot do anything. Stasik dies, but a new emerald wasp emerges from his body.

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Each female immurs up to 40 adult cockroaches in her life, and this is not counting those she eats right away. What is stopping us from bringing these monsters to our homeland in order to get rid of the Prussians and black cockroaches forever? Climate. Cockroach wasps cannot tolerate our weather - they die with the first frost. So, alas, we will have to rely only on dichlorvos and the armor-piercing power of house slippers.