A wasp larva injects a spider with a web-altering drug, driving the spider to spin a shelter just right for a wasp cocoon.
It’s “probably the most finely directed alteration of behavior ever attributed to an insect parasitoid,” notes William G. Eberhard of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and University of Costa Rica in San Jose.
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