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…
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.)
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…
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.)