Cockroach

The cockroach is still there.

This is the leg of a cockroach.

It chews a hole into the cockroach and starts to feed from the outside.

The wasps grabs onto one of the antenna, bites down on it, of the cockroach, and pulls the cockroach.

So, I'll be the cockroach.

The cockroach says, Nice place.

There he is, the cockroach.

And the cockroach starts shaking it off,

It's taking away the cockroach's free will.

It knows this cockroach's nervous system

When you touched the cockroach leg, what did it feel like?

The wasp very quickly starts stinging the cockroach.

leaving the cockroach entombed in darkness, still alive.

The cockroach says, Alright, I'll stay here if you want.

And the cockroach says, Alright, and walks like a dog on a leash.

When you touched the cockroach leg can you get the microphone for him?

All of a sudden, the cockroach can't move, for about a minute.

So you're looking at roughly one percent of the brain of a cockroach.

And then when it gets big enough, it decides to crawl into the hole, into the cockroach.

Let's see what happens if I've plugged in something that's electric into the cockroach leg here.

So now it's inside the still living cockroach and the cockroach doesn't mind much.

Maybe we could give it to our curator and see if he'd be brave enough to touch the cockroach.

The business was laying an egg on the underside of the cockroach.

We need to take off the leg of a cockroach don't worry, they'll grow back then we're going to put two pins in there.

Finally the wasp is ready to leave, and that's when the cockroach finally dies because the fulily formed adult wasp crawls out of the cockroach's dying body.

The wasp shakes itself off, climbs out of the burrow, goes and finds another wasp to mate with to start this whole, crazy cycle again.

But we're not going to record my brain or your brain or your teachers' brains, we're going to use our good friend the cockroach.

You see, the thing is that when it attacks the cockroach, it's not just stinging wildly, it delivers two precise stings.

The cockroach's tendency to dine on its own feces as well as dead cockroaches was both its strength, and its liability.

Now, I mentioned that the cockroach took care, ah, the wasp took care of a little business before it left the burrow.

The jewel wasp has sensors on its stinger and scientists think that it can actually feel its way through the cockroach's brain until it gets to the exact, right place, and then penetrates an individual neuron and then delivers the goods.

But that current's the same currency that our brain uses, so we can send that to our cockroach leg and hopefully if this works, we can actually see what happens when we play music into the cockroach.

Once a cockroach eats poisoned bait, it either dies, or returns to the harborage. If it dies, its poisoned corpse is eaten by other cockroaches, who then die themselves.

Comparison of three common cockroaches Notes See also Cockroach Oriental cockroach References External links An Ohio State University Entomology article on the American cockroach (PDF) Gallery of cockroaches Order Blattodea, Exploring California Insects University of Minnesota Extension Cockroaches article American cockroach egg parasitoid on the UF IFAS Featured Creatures website

Waving antennae and spiked legs. And a deeply unsettling way of zig zagging around a room in search of a bookcase to escape behind or a pile of papers or dirty clothes to hide under. But what is most distressing is the sheer size of a full grown cockroach.