Environmental Graffiti

Nature’s Chemical Invisibility Cloak

To give you an idea of how the cuckoo wasp operates, imagine a ninja secretly penetrating a samurai’s castle and causing complete carnage without ever being seen. The brilliant metallic colouring shouldn’t deflect from what a highly specialised parasitic critter this is. In point of fact, the cuckoo wasp has a distinctly subtle way of avoiding detection, which owes less to the way it looks than the way it smells.

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