the responses here kind of relate to one of the reasons I´ve been particularly interested in parasitic wasps and flies since I started exploring entomology…
my knee-jerk response to the notion of parasitism is that its abhorrent… that one creatures lays its babies inside another…and that their baby then eats said creature from the inside out while its still alive …is pretty hard to wrap your head around from a human perspective!
but that’s a really positive challenge to overcome IMO, to discard more traditional perceptions of these actions as good / evil …and see it as the cycle of life as those above mention
and more than that, to connect and in a sense, care for these creatures and value them as well! …is just absolutely fascinating to me. :)
its a powerful experience to gaze into the eyes of a parasitic bee-grabber when photographing it!
spending time with these creatures really shakes my world-view.