stackyFACTSThe ultimate nightmare fuel of the insect kingdom involves tiny winged intruders stealthily flying into your eyeballs while you sleep.
The ultimate nightmare fuel of the insect kingdom involves tiny winged intruders stealthily flying into your eyeballs while you sleep. Certain moths in Madagascar lack access to proper sodium in their diet, so they resort to biological thievery. They possess a specialized proboscis shaped like a tiny harpoon, which they gently slide under the eyelids of sleeping birds to slurp up their salty, nutrient-rich tears like a bizarre, parasitic juice box.
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