Unexpected free riders
While traveling in Costa Rica, Freek picks up a group of unexpected hitchhikers: larvae of the human hornet. He decides not to remove them, but to let them grow out in his leg. Freek is the host and thus gets the unique opportunity to follow their metamorphosis up close. And how cool is it that the parasites stay alive this way because of him? Eventually, one of his three "larval babies" named Kwak, grows into an adult fly. Follow the life cycle and metamorphosis of this special parasite in the larval special!
Wednesday, December 3, 2023, at 5:50 p.m. on VPRO, NPO Zapp.