Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs in or on their hosts. The wasps' larvae then consume the host, sometimes from the inside out. Parasitoid wasps can be found on every single continent except Antarctica.
Seirian Sumner receives funding from NERC. Her book Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps, out on May 26 in the UK and July 12 in the US, looks beyond the gruesome side of wasps and aims to help ...