wasps

Four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A young child points off-panel and asks her mother, 'Oh my gosh Mommy what are those two wasps doing?!' A large wasp is visible at left. The frazzled mother begins a nervous birds-and-the-bees explanation: 'Oh man. Ah... okay, well, when two creatures love each other a whole bunch, and one is a boy and one is a girl, and you know, they kinda... well one has a...' A teenage girl with a backpack stands awkwardly nearby. Panel 2: The teen girl says 'Oh, wait.' Panel 3: The mother, now matter-of-fact, corrects herself: 'Those aren't the same species. The female is ovipositing into the paralyzed torso of a different wasp, whose still-living body will nourish those eggs until they burst out!' Panel 4: The teen girl, looking relieved with a hand to her forehead, says 'Phew!' — relieved it was a gruesome parasitism lecture rather than an awkward sex talk. Votey: A close-up of a sweating face with the single handwritten word 'Hot.', alongside two pairs of glasses.