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Alex Hyde

Common wasps, such as this female, also use their stingers to deposit eggs.

Fruiting bodies erupt from a dead moth killed by the cordyceps fungus. The genetically related ophiocordyceps fungus similarly kills insects, but first makes its host body do its bidding.

Olm embryos often don’t hatch into salamanders, but Postojna cave has recently been the site of above-average birth rates.

French customs officers seized orchid mantises from a shipment addressed to New Jersey resident Wlodzimie Lapkiewicz. The Southeast Asian insects masquerade as flowers to attract prey.

Green Hydras, Derbyshire.