Tiny Tuesday - carcass

This is a gruesome story, so if you're not into gory details, best give this one a miss.

Many of our tiny wasps are parasitic.  They lay their eggs in the body of a larvae of some sort, most likely a caterpillar.

The eggs hatch, and the grubs eat the innards of their host, before hatching into a new family of wasps.

This is, I believe, the mummified carcass of a dead caterpillar, after the wasps have hatched. 

I put a pencil alongside it, so you could see how tiny it is; and how perfectly formed - and we won't think about the wasps' dinner.