Wasp Deposits Parasitic Larvae Deep Inside Tree Trunk

The wasp's antennae scan every millimeter of bark for a very specific spot. She's found it. Now Megarissa maneuvers her ovipositor into position, but it's much too long. First, it's coiled into a special flexible pouch in her abdomen. Now the drill is at right angles to the wood. She can bore straight through the bark. With high-tech precision, she drills towards the larva of a wood wasp. The Megarissa pierces its body and injects her venom. This won't kill the larva, but paralyzes it forever. She retracts the ovipositor just a little and then lays an egg directly onto the surface of the immobilized wood wasp larva. Her egg turns into a larva that will eat the paralyzed host bit by bit until it's ready to emerge.