
In March, entomologists reported the discovery of a new prehistoric wasp. Its calling card wasn’t its stinger, but something much stranger. It grabbed its prey with its butt flaps—capturing its booty in its booty, like a kind of toochus fly trap. Once the wasp had its prey in tail, it injected its parasitic eggs into it, which would hatch and then slowly eat its victim from the inside out.
Joining Host Flora Lichtman to tell us more is Dr. Lars Vilhelmsen, curator at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
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Dr. Lars Vilhelmsen is an associate professor and curator at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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