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[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 85 points 4 months ago
[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago
[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 4 months ago

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

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago
[-] 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
[-] 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 12 points 4 months ago

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 10 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.

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