00:00:14
I would like to introduce you to my favorite parasite.
00:00:19
There are millions that I could choose from
00:00:22
it's called the jewel wasp.
00:00:24
You can find it in parts of Africa and Asia.
00:00:27
It's a little under an inch long,
00:00:28
and it is a beautiful looking parasite.
00:00:30
Now, you may be saying to yourself,
00:00:32
"This is not a parasite.
00:00:34
It's not a tapeworm,
00:00:35
it's not a virus,
00:00:35
how could a wasp be a parasite?"
00:00:38
You are probably thinking about regular wasps,
00:00:40
you know, the ones that build paper nests as their house.
00:00:45
Well, the thing is that the jewel wasp
00:00:48
makes its house inside a living cockroach.
00:00:54
Here's how it happens.
00:00:57
A jewel wasp is flying around, looking for a cockroach.
00:01:00
When it sees one, it lands and bites on its wing.
00:01:03
So, I'll be the cockroach.
00:01:06
And the cockroach starts shaking it off,
00:01:08
"Get away from me!"
00:01:10
The wasp very quickly starts stinging the cockroach.
00:01:14
All of a sudden, the cockroach can't move,
00:01:17
for about a minute.
00:01:18
And then it recovers
00:01:22
It could run away now,
00:01:26
It just doesn't want to.
00:01:28
It just stays there.
00:01:30
It's become a zombie slave.
00:01:35
Again, I'm not making this up.
00:01:37
The wasp goes off,
00:01:38
it walks away and finds a hole
00:01:41
and digs it out, makes it into a burrow.
00:01:45
This can take up to half an hour.
00:01:48
The cockroach is still there.
00:01:51
What do we do now?
00:01:53
The wasps grabs onto one of the antenna,
00:01:56
bites down on it,
00:01:58
of the cockroach,
00:01:59
and pulls the cockroach.
00:02:01
And the cockroach says, "Alright,"
00:02:04
and walks like a dog on a leash.
00:02:07
The wasp takes it all the way down into the burrow.
00:02:11
The cockroach says, "Nice place."
00:02:14
The wasp takes care of some business
показать еще
русский▼
English
