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Nala Rogers, and ,Knowable Magazine

How Wasps Make Use of Biological Weapons To Conquer Their Prey

— Christian Vogt / 500px/500px/Getty Images

If you puncture the ovary of a wasp called Microplitis demolitor, viruses squirt out in vast quantities, shimmering like iridescent blue toothpaste. “It’s very beautiful and just amazing that there’s so much virus made in there,” says Gaelen Burke, an entomologist at the University of Georgia.

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