It’s naptime of the living dead on guava trees in Brazil.
Healthy juvenile wasps lie inside their cocoons while nearly dead caterpillars
loom nearby — as bodyguards.
UNDEAD PROTECTION A caterpillar doomed by wasp attack looms over the cocoons of its attackers — but ends up protecting them from predators.
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