A paralysed grasshopper outside a mortician wasps nesting hole in a cave floor
The mortician wasp finds itself a grasshopper, often several times its own size. It stings the grasshopper, which paralyses it, and then flies up into the cave where it has prepared a hole into which it drags its' victim. The wasp lays its eggs inside the insect, they hatch, and have live grasshopper to eat - albeit only temporarily
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Photo credit: © James Handfield-Jones / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: breeding, grasshopper, mortician, nature, nest, nesting, paralysed, predatory, wasp
