you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

There are parasitoid wasps that lay eggs inside other species of insect and have a symbiotic relationship with polydnaviruses that suppress the host's immune system so it doesn't attack the wasp eggs.

Basically, if you're an unlucky caterpillar, ant, or whatever, a wasp may come along, penetrate you with its girldick (ovipositor), and give you insect AIDS so that its young can hatch inside you and eat your still living flesh...

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    This might be completely off topic but when I was quite young I thought girldicks were a thing because I witnessed a particularly explicit anime or manga. I had something down there and why wouldn't they?

    What was more horrible was that it was my mother who corrected me after she laughed at something I had said (I don't remember what I said and it's not like I understood it enough to be embarrassed either.)

  • source
  • parent