It’s a dog-walker’s dream, a dose that quashes the urge to
dash around without guidance. Too bad it works just for cockroaches.
BRAIN SHOT A wasp downs a cockroach with a double sting, one temporarily paralyzing it and the second delivering a venom to the brain that weakens the roach’s drive to walk.
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