Parasitic Wasp Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/5/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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This cache is one in a series dedicated to amazing & unusual organisms. I am astounded by the amazing diversity of plant and animal life that exists in this world. But the real fascination lies with those organisms that are amazing, unusual and odd.

These organisms have capabilities that we do not share and can barely imagine: extraordinary navigational methods, abilities to regenerate lost limbs, live symbiotically with light-producing bacteria, reproduce asexually, survive in suspended animation, change shape and color at will and much more!

Parasitic Wasp (Ichneumonidae)

Wasps in the Ichneumonidae family are important parasitoids of other insects. A parasitoid is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life attached to or within a single host organism in a relationship that is in essence parasitic. Unlike a true parasite, however, it ultimately sterilises or kills, and sometimes consumes, the host. (Wikipedia)

There are two unusual behavior characteristics of the parasitic wasp. 1.) The female will inject her eggs into a caterpillar, and the wasp larvae thrive by eating their way out (see video below), and 2.) The male will offer himself as a sex partner in place of the female he's just mated with, to prevent a rival from courting her (Discover Magazine, May 1994).

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