🫣 PARASITIC WASPS: A new species of wasp has been discovered that lays its eggs inside adult fruit flies. The wasp larva grows inside the fly and then rips the fly open when it emerges, a recent study described. To learn more, check out the link in bio. (Photos: Matthew Ballinger) (Video: from the article "Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies" in the journal Nature, with the authors' permission) #wasps #fruitflies #foxweather