Image of the Day: Flamboyant Freeloader
Despite its bright colors, the parasitic cuckoo wasp (Chrysis propria) adeptly camouflages its eggs in the nests of other wasps.
Jun 17, 2014
FLICKR, USGS, SAM DROEGE
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