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Yep that's why tarantula hawk wasps give me fucking nightmares.
They are one of the largest parasitoid wasps, using their sting to paralyze their prey before dragging it to a brood nest as living food; a single egg is laid on the prey, hatching to a larva which eats the still-living prey.
You may be surprised to learn that figs contain dead wasps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_fig: