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Here's a black wasp, who turns out to be quite adept at controlling aphid colonies. Watch her as she injects eggs into as many as 200 individual aphids with surgical precision. Watch the waspling grow, kill the aphid, and emerge. Via Uglyoverload See something similar with flies and fire- ants here [...

I'm still consistently amazed at how often I'm directed to a new species of ugly, and this after almost four years of daily blogging. It's the trilobite beetle of Asia. Photo source: ExoBeetles.de These rare and endangered beetles can sometimes be spotted undulating in rotting wood after a rain. Bu...

Behold your new master. Behold his face and be afraid, behold his arms, outstretched to welcome his new subjects. Or, look at the hind end of a watersnipe fly larvae (Atherix ibis). The presence of these tiny freshwater creatures are actually good indicators of overall water quality. They have noth...

Sometimes caterpillars come with such amazing shapes and colors and spines and fur and toxins and appetites that I wonder why they even bother becoming butterflies. Why give up a life of carefree gluttony for flight and nectar and mating? I think that is a question best answered by the poets among us....

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Insects Parasites Parasitic Wasp Kills Aphids - Aphid Killer (Preview)	Insect Species	0	1892	Jul 30, 2009 by Dj Quiva
Here's a black wasp, who turns out to be quite adept at controlling aphid colonies. Watch her as she injects eggs into as many as 200 individual aphids with surgical precision. Watch the waspling grow, kill the aphid, and emerge. Via Uglyoverload See something similar with flies and fire- ants here [...
Insects Alien Animals Bug Trilobite (Preview)	Insect Species	0	4179	Sep 18, 2009 by Dj Quiva
I'm still consistently amazed at how often I'm directed to a new species of ugly, and this after almost four years of daily blogging. It's the trilobite beetle of Asia. Photo source: ExoBeetles.de These rare and endangered beetles can sometimes be spotted undulating in rotting wood after a rain. Bu...
Alien Animals Insects Larvae watersnipe fly larvae (Atherix ibis) (Preview)	Alien Animals	0	1947	Oct 13, 2009 by Dj Quiva
Behold your new master. Behold his face and be afraid, behold his arms, outstretched to welcome his new subjects. Or, look at the hind end of a watersnipe fly larvae (Atherix ibis). The presence of these tiny freshwater creatures are actually good indicators of overall water quality. They have noth...
Alien Animals Insects ugly caterpillars (Preview)	Alien Animals	0	2644	Oct 13, 2009 by Dj Quiva
Sometimes caterpillars come with such amazing shapes and colors and spines and fur and toxins and appetites that I wonder why they even bother becoming butterflies. Why give up a life of carefree gluttony for flight and nectar and mating? I think that is a question best answered by the poets among us....