The Ampulex wasp traps its prey (common cockroaches) by paralyzing the roach and modifying its cerebral cortex, after which the roach becomes completely docile. The wasp then leads the roach into a cavern and attaches an egg to the roach, who sits there calmly while the egg hatches, the larva eats its way into and gestates inside the roach and then eats its way out.
Not science fiction - reality: http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2006/02/02/the_wisdom_of_parasites.php
So...natural selection at work here? How many wasps had to sting how many cockroaches for that right neural cluster to be hit?
Ok, so...design? What entity that represented any sort of good would deliberately engineer something so horrific?
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