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![Screenshot of Wikipedia article "Parasitoid Wasp, in culture" reading as follows: Parasitoid wasps influenced the thinking of Charles Darwin.[b] In an 1860 letter to the American naturalist Asa Gray, Darwin wrote: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."[3] The palaeontologist Donald Prothero notes that religiously minded people of the Victorian era, including Darwin, were horrified by this instance of evident cruelty in nature, particularly noticeable in the Ichneumonidae.[42]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtvxcm2mb2sbigwftpvkaikd/bafkreih3sgynybfdcf7jt6r6rocwzsergtwozvtybntngshyegpw2gy5iq)
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