Horrific wasps 'use other bodies to farm young' in 'real-life alien movie'

These terrifying wasps behave like something straight out of a sci-fi horror film, right in our own back gardens. The wasps use unsuspecting prey to breed their young.

Their throbbing bodies emerge from their host's torso, before the mind-controlled caterpillars perform an even more horrifying act.

In search of a place to lay their eggs, they are drawn to the scent of the Cabbage white butterfly's caterpillars' saliva mixed with cabbage or radishes as they ravage through the plants we cherish growing in allotments across the nation.

These caterpillars are larger, stronger, and more aggressive than the wasps, however, the flying insects manage to get the species in a sort of headlock. With a few uninterrupted seconds to lay her eggs, the female wasp will implant them in the caterpillar, almost killing her, according to Team Candiru.

The caterpillar will seem normal, but the eggs will be feeding on the creature's non-essential tissue, biding their time. The larva then releases a chemical that paralyses the caterpillar, despite its tough skin the wasps have developed sharp teeth that can cut themselves out from the belly of the insect, reports the Mirror.

Once they breach the surface of its skin they contract their bodies from front to back, pushing themselves out. There can be up to 50 eggs in one caterpillar.

The abundance of larvae then commence spinning golden silk which they utilise to encase themselves in cocoons. The grubs shed no blood as they emerge from the caterpillar - and remarkably, their host survives.

Nevertheless, it becomes tethered to the larvae's cocoons, and in a bewildering turn the caterpillar starts assisting the young in constructing their dwellings with its own silk. Team Candiru said: "Under normal circumstances this instinct would not exhibit any maternal instincts whatsoever."

Once the caterpillar completes weaving the nest it commences monitoring the young like a mother would. Team Candiru said "it will stand sentry over the wasps day and night, fiercely defending them against any intruders."

It shall persist in guarding them until it starves itself. Following several days, the wasps shall emerge from their eggs, with the males appearing first, awaiting the females.

According to the channel these wasps are "so common" that 70 per cent of large white caterpillars will endure this destiny, enabling the cycle of these wasps' existence to persist.

One horrified viewer said: "When I was about 13 years old, in my garden there were a lot of caterpillars and I was very excited to see how these insects became pupae and then butterflies, but I remember looking at a caterpillar and seeing that it behaved strangely, to which I kept observing when suddenly, those worms began to emerge!

"I was simply shocked because I didn't understand what was happening, how it was possible that worms came out of a caterpillar, I was appalled, but then I did some research and found out what it was. A bit mirk."