Ichneumon

It would be just like an Ichneumon wasp to parasitize something.

The Saga of Diceratops, Diceratus, and Nedoceratops ReBecca Foster 2009

Ichneumon wasps, with their habit of paralysing but not killing their victim, before laying an egg in it with the promise of a larva gnawing it hollow from within, and the cruelty of nature generally, were major preoccupations of Victorian theodicy.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Ichneumon wasps, with their habit of paralysing but not killing their victim, before laying an egg in it with the promise of a larva gnawing it hollow from within, and the cruelty of nature generally, were major preoccupations of Victorian theodicy.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Note that he is not questioning the existence or role of a designer in general, but rather is objecting to assigning a property–beneficience–to a designer of biological systems and cites a biological phenomenon–the feeding habits of Ichneumon wasp larvae–as justification.

Stephen Meyer on Bad Biological Designs - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Its articles evidence a wide range of knowledge on topics ranging from 'The natural History of the Swallow Tail'd Butterfly, and its Ichneumon' to the islands of Amboyna (one of the Moluccas) the customs of its inhabitants and 'the strange fruits and extraordinary marvels which are to be found in that country'.

Charlotte (Ramsay) Lennox (c.1729-1804) 2008

Storckes, Oistruthes, and many kindes of serpentes, as Cerastes, and Aspides, against whom nature hath matched the Ichneumon (a verie little beast) as a mortall enemie.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

One day he sat sketching an immense Ichneumon fly that had just emerged from a Tawny Admiral chrysalis.

Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley

It disperseth me more, then the rauenous vulturs the glomerated bowels of _Tityus_: It holdeth me in more, then the labirinth crooking: It tosseth me more, then the northeast winds the calme seas: It teareth me woorse then _Acteons_ dogges their flieng master: It troubleth my spirits more then horrible death doth them who desire to liue: It is more direfull to my vexed hart, then the crocodils bowels to _Ichneumon_.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

This instinct is the more remarkable, because the _Ichneumon_ never feeds upon the eggs he has broken, nor any other way finds his account in them.

The Coverley Papers Various

Ichneumon Fly detects the larva of the Celery Fly in the Celery and

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons