Parasitic wasp. Interesting.

Out comes a wasp larva.

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.

And here comes the salvation, through this parasitic wasp.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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