Nature

A wasp stings a cockroach's brain, then walks it to its own grave

The emerald cockroach wasp delivers a first sting to paralyse its victim's front legs, then a second directly into the brain that suppresses the escape reflex without knocking it out. The wasp then leads the fully mobile but compliant cockroach by an antenna into a burrow, lays an egg on it, and seals it in alive as food for its larva.

Frederic Libersat and Ram Gal, Wasp Voodoo Rituals, Venom-Cocktails, and the Zombification of Cockroach Hosts — Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2014

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