A tiny wasp’s big brain survival strategy
blogs.dal.ca

These wasps are not single-celled organisms though, and their brains alone contain 4600 neurons. For reference, the brain of a honeybee contains ~1 million neurons. Despite their extremely small heads (again, look at that head next to the SINGLE CELLED amoeba) the wasps can still fly, seek out mates, and find thrip eggs to parasitize. So…what? How?

  • paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    I love how at the end of the article he describes a truly morbid detail about a completely different insect because

    I needed to share the burden of knowing they exist and are out there, waiting.