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[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 88 points 4 months ago (4 children)
[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don't worry. "God made them this way".

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 months ago

Apparently some more than others, but the caterpillar just needs to have faith in a higher purpose.

[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

For context for everyone else: https://web.archive.org/web/20200405172817/http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2001/PSCF9-01Miles.html

Parasitic wasps that ate caterpillars from the inside out were one of the main reasons for Darwin to become increasingly skeptical of religion.

[–] dwemthy@lemdro.id 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love the part where there's a virus that some wasps carry and inject with the eggs that suppresses the host's immune response

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 4 months ago

Jesus always finds a way

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

That's the worst thing I've seen all month

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I just watched that video of the white cabbage larva with the smaller larvae exiting its body. Jeez, it's still alive after THAT? Life's rich pageant, I guess.