Carl Zimmer | TED-Ed
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This is stranger than science fiction.
The jewel wasp and the cockroach have a disgusting and fascinating parasitic relationship.
The jewel wasp stuns the cockroach, and months later, a jewel wasp hatches out of the cockroach.
At TEDYouth 2012, Carl Zimmer walks us through how this happens and why it personally fascinates him.
Talk by Carl Zimmer.