Parasitic wasp. Interesting.

And here comes the salvation, through this parasitic wasp.

This is a parasitic wasp, again, two millimeters long, slender, a very quick and sharp flier.

It could be microbial, viral, parasitic,

Out comes a wasp larva.

Her guts were swimming with parasitic worms.

Black Wasp, take out the truck!

Hey! There's a wasp nest over there.

I got a nasty sting from a wasp.

The wasp very quickly starts stinging the cockroach.

A tendency to be cruel, parasitic, destructive and above all...

There's a wasp nest, by the... by the greenhouse.

A jewel wasp is flying around, looking for a cockroach.

Suddenly you realize there's a wasp crawling on your arm.

The wasp shakes itself off, climbs out of the burrow, goes and finds another wasp to mate with to start this whole, crazy cycle again.

The wasp takes it all the way down into the burrow.

Polish Jew, you know, main WASP family. Here I am, saying,

A hearty hello... to Clegg Holdfast and his Voltec KT9 Wasp!

Finally the wasp is ready to leave, and that's when the cockroach finally dies because the fulily formed adult wasp crawls out of the cockroach's dying body.

We didn't really appreciate that cockroaches have free will until this wasp showed us.

It's not a tapeworm, it's not a virus, how could a wasp be a parasite?

Well, the thing is that the jewel wasp makes its house inside a living cockroach.

There are millions that I could choose from and this is it it's called the jewel wasp.

Now, we discovered this in the 1970s, the wasp has been doing this for millions of years.

Now, am I saying that a sizable minority of the world's population has had their brain hijacked by parasitic ideas?

The wasp takes care of some business and then goes and leaves the burrow and seals it shut,

Were you one of those despicable spies who tried to steal my life's work and sell it to parasitic, copycat, candymaking cads?

The wasp goes off, it walks away and finds a hole and digs it out, makes it into a burrow.

Now, I mentioned that the cockroach took care, ah, the wasp took care of a little business before it left the burrow.

And, when you really start to look at the science of it, you start to kind of respect this very creepy wasp.

It's a parasitic brain worm that has to get into the stomach of a sheep or a cow in order to continue its life cycle.

Vowing to root out the parasitic elements... that have crippled our economy since 1929... and to liberate the masses from the grip of financial profiteers.

My addiction began with this strange looking diving suit called Wasp that's not an acronym just somebody thought it looked like the insect.

We actually use the same method, a drug called Ivermectin, to cure river blindness, which is caused by a parasitic worm that gets into your eye.

And in 30,000 square meters of state of the art greenhouses, there, we are mass producing those predatory mites, those minute pirate bugs, those parasitic wasps, etc.

So, this is quite amazing stuff, and what seems to happen then is that the wasp is taking away the control that the cockroach has over its own body.

The New Atheists, for example, argue that religion is a set of memes, sort of parasitic memes, that get inside our minds and make us do all kinds of crazy religious stuff, self destructive stuff, like suicide bombing.

The jewel wasp has sensors on its stinger and scientists think that it can actually feel its way through the cockroach's brain until it gets to the exact, right place, and then penetrates an individual neuron and then delivers the goods.

Dumb ways to die ie ie so many dumb ways to die dress up like a moose during hunting season disturb a nest of wasp for no good reason stand on the edge of a train station platform drive around the boom gates at a level crossing run across the tracks between the platforms they may not rhyme but they're quite possibly