Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1h
Ancient, Parasitic Wasp Used Its Rear End Like a Venus Flytrap to Catch Insects and Lay Its Eggs on Them, Study Suggests
Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...
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Monstrous 99-Million-Year-Old Wasp Had Inbuilt "Venus Flytrap" For Snatching Victims
"Early parasitoid wasps may have been smarter than we thought," said study author Dr Taiping Gao to IFLScience.