Yes, really. Nature reports on a paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology that explains how the emerald cockroach wasp enslaves its victim using a neurotoxin, enabling the much smaller wasp to lead the hapless cockroach to its death. Much easier than paralyzing the prey and having to drag it back home yourself, you see. Isn’t science wonderful?

Hey look, fewer cockroaches in the world has to be a good thing, and until such time as politicians work how how to play a similar trick on voters we are safe, right?