The bizarre world of parasitic wasps - Miles Zhang
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A cockroach and jewel wasp are locked in battle. The wasp latches onto the cockroach and inserts her stinger into the cockroach's brain, where her venom blocks its fight-or-flight response. Now, the cockroach is essentially a zombie, and its carcass will be used to grow the wasp’s offspring. Miles Zhang explores the gruesome evolutionary strategy known as parasitoidism.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Miles Zhang
- Director Denys Spolitak
- Narrator Jack Cutmore-Scott
- Music Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio
- Sound Designer Zavid Lan, cAMP Studio
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Senior Producer Anna Bechtol
- Associate Producer Sazia Afrin
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Script Producer Cella Wright
- Fact-Checker Charles Wallace
Hayley Levitt
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Do you think there are more species of wasps than than there are beetles, which is thought to have the greatest number of known species?
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ELIAS FAZ VILLALOBOS
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I am just going to say that it is said that 78-80% of all species have or been documented, this is only an estimation of course. But I think that there are more wasps than beetles.
Harry Connerty
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I do think there are more species of wasps than there are beetles because they have the greatest number of wasp species.