Huge four-inch long parasitic wasps are discovered in the Ugandan jungle

Scientists have discovered two species of wasps which grow up to four inches (10cm) long and lay their eggs inside other insects. The wasps were found in the jungle in Uganda's Kibale National Park and are among some of the only ones of their type ever discovered. Named Epirhyssa quagga and Epirhyssa johanna, the creatures are part of the rhyssine family, which cannot sting and are harmless to humans. But they are less harmless in their own habitat – their larvae develop inside the offspring of beetles and other wasps and eat them from the inside out. Discoveries of these disconcertingly large wasps are generally rare, but scientists this time found large numbers of both males and females of new types in the forest.