As the reproductive larvae consume its insides, the soldiers kill the other parasitoids.

黄蜂的繁殖性幼虫会吃掉毛毛虫的身体，卫兵幼虫会杀死其他拟寄生物。

This was just a peek into the prolific province of parasitoid wasps.

这只是拟寄生黄蜂的“丰功伟绩”中的几件。

Parasitoids feed off other animals as they develop, usually killing their hosts in the process.

拟寄生物在成长的过程中以其他动物为食，通常会在此过程中杀死寄主。

Others are hyperparasitoids, whose victims are other parasitoid wasps.

有是“超寄生生物”，寄生在其他拟寄生黄蜂身上。

Instead of killing and then eating their prey, parasitoid wasps eat and thus kill them—or, rather, their larvae do.

与杀死猎物后再吃掉不同，寄生性黄蜂是通过吃猎物来杀死它们的——或者说，是它们的幼虫这样做。

Like many of their kin, these insects are parasitoids, a trophic status halfway between being parasites and predators.

像它们的许多近亲一样， 这昆虫是寄生性天敌，处于寄生和捕食之间的营养级地位。

Though much remains unknown, some researchers suspect that parasitoid wasps are among the most diverse animal groups — perhaps the most diverse.

虽然未解之谜有很多，但是有研究者怀疑拟寄生黄蜂是最多样化的动物种群之一，也有可能就是最多样化的那一个。

Mm. If it makes you feel any better, a parasitoid wasp known as Oobius depressus has been rediscovered after 101 years of presumed extinction.

假如这能让你好受点的话一种称为Oobius depressus的寄生蜂被认定101年前就灭绝了但最近被重新发现了。

Mobilising parasitoid wasps for pest control has a long history, beginning in the 1920s with their employment in greenhouses against whitefly.

利用寄生性黄蜂进行害虫防治有着悠久的历史，始于20世纪20年代， 在温室中对抗白粉虱时就开始使用它们了。

Mobilizing parasitoid wasps for pest control has a long history beginning in the 1920s, their employment in greenhouses against whitefly.

动员寄生性天敌黄蜂进行害虫防治有着悠久的历史， 始于20世纪20年代，在温室中对付白粉虱。

Those hairs are thought to have evolved as a way to protect the caterpillars against predators and maybe against parasitoids that wanna lay their eggs inside the caterpillar's body.

这毛被认为是作为一种保护毛虫的方式而进化的，以抵御捕食者，也可能抵御那想在毛虫体内产卵的寄生虫。

Those hairs are thought to have evolved as a way to protect the caterpillars against predators and maybe against parasitoids that wanna lay their eggs inside the caterpillar's body.

Weiss：人们认为，这毛发的进化是为了保护毛虫免受捕食者的侵害，或许能抵御想在毛虫体内产卵的拟寄生物。

Either the host is paralyzed or it continues to feed and breathe in and live relatively normally but with this parasitoid thing, living and growing inside it and eventually of course it kills the host.

要么宿主瘫痪了，要么它继续进食和呼吸并相对正常地生活，但有了这种寄生虫，在它体内生活和生长，最终它当然会杀死宿主。