Cuckoo Wasp

I have learned about the cuckoo wasp, when one was nervously jittering on the bathroom windowsill while I was pooping. The little gal’s body was not moving along any spatial axes but she was unquiet in her idleness. She reminded me of an old military vehicle in metallic green, iridescent, engine running visibly.

This wasp is another one that just injects its eggs into the larvae of other wasps. Like, what even is that? Parasitoid animals freak me out, admittedly. Can’t they survive without murdering babies? In my shame I did not save her, but left her there on the sill to jitter and wonder about the interior landscape.