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 Remember those Alien movies?  The Alien would lay it's eggs in the warm, nourishing belly of unsuspecting humans where they would hatch, eat their way out and chase Sigourney Weaver through progressively worse screenplays.  You probably already know that this behavior (the egg-laying, not the Sigourney-chasing) was inspired by a real-life breed of wasp which does the same thing.

New research shows that when a wasp lays its eggs in the geometrid caterpillar (also known as the inchworm), the caterpillar does not die when the eggs hatch but is instead turned into a zombie to guard the cocooned larvae. 

That's right, that little inchworm of Sesame Street song is controlled by several parasitoid larvae who remain behind.  The caterpillar is exactly like a Japanese giant robot but tiny, green and out of ammunition.  It stands arched over the cocoons without moving away or feeding and scares off predators.  Once the wasps hatch the poor inchworm is granted a swift, well-deserved death.

Oh, Nature.  If you were an  actual person you'd have been locked up years ago.  Somebody should really do something.  Nature must be stopped. .