A species of Wasp in Costa Rica sting spiders and lay their eggs inside them. The spiders then lay an especially strong web to support the wasp larva and then dies. When the larva is born it eats the spider!
"Bug Lady"
"Bug Lady" Professor Gail Anderson of Simon Fraser University
has been named on of the five leading innovators in the field of
criminal justice by Time Magazine. Prof. Anderson is a forensic
entomologist and a criminologist, and she uses insects to tell the
time of death in a homicide. By researching the patterns and stages
in which insects colonize a body after death, she can determine
when death occurred, sometimes to the hour! MARCH 13, 2001
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