The Demon Crown

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae [parasitic wasps] with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.…

— CHARLES DARWIN,

in a letter written May 22, 1860, to botanist Asa Gray

They’re seriously misunderstood creatures.

— J. K. ROWLING,

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire