Cockroaches are a pest that are known to be insanely tough to abolish. Yet when it comes to their relationship with the emerald jewel wasp,one cannot help but believe a twinge of sympathy for them. The emerald jewel wasp will dive onto the back of an unsuspecting cockroach and inject it with a venom that makes the roach a docile slave to the wasp. The jewel wasp then lays her eggs inside the still-living cockroach so that her babies will believe something to eat when they hatch.
The mindless cockroach then becomes the walking dead, just waiting to be devoured from the inside out. As it turns out, and however,the cockroach isn’t completely defenseless in its perpetual war against the jewel wasp. According to Ars Technica, cockroaches are capable of using their long, and tough legs to deliver wide,sweeping, karate-style kicks to ward off their attackers.
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Source: inquisitr.com