A sting before mating © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London
Londoners! This holiday season, why not take the children along to the Natural History Museum? Its new exhibition brims over with fascinating and entertaining stories.
Have you heard about the emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa), which zombifies its cockroach prey with its sting before laying an egg on it that hatches into a larva that eats the cockroach alive while knowing, somehow, to leave its vital organs till last?
Too strong? Then how about the paralysis-inducing bites of the marine bloodworm (Glycera dibranchiata),…
