How does evolution explain the Emerald cockroach wasp?

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I always subscribed to the idea Evolution exists (probably more due to being blasted by how it's "completely logical and intelligent") but never understood how it can explain certain animals with some insanely convoluted survival strategies that would be impossible to slowly form over hundreds of generations. For example the Emerald cockroach wasp breeds by finding a specific kind of cockroach, lobotomizing it via poison, ride it around like the mouse from that Disney movie, implant kids into them and then hide them away in burrows until the next generation eats its way out of the cockroach.

 

[TerrorCorpCEO]

Need me a freak like that

 

[Beak Thing]

Beats me, there's still a lot left to figure out.

My best guess those cockroaches were the ancestor's primary food source so they evolved better and better ways of hunting those specific ones in their range. They might be too tough for other insects/spiders to take on creating a niche.

 

[CowPox]

Why would that behavior be impossible to form over generations?

 

[Pangolin]

I'm convinced that the remora was invented by young earth creationists to shake my faith in Science. How does a fin turn into a sucker? Also the sucker looks like a shoe insert someone glued to a regular fish.

 

[spergetti & NEETballs]

I'm convinced that the remora was invented by young earth creationists to shake my faith in Science. How does a fin turn into a sucker?

Remoras still have a dorsal fin, are you looking at them upside-down? The sucker is on the underside of the fish, if you look on the back it still has a fin there.
edit: wait what the fuck, have I been looking at them upside down? what weird
fish, disregard this i'm a retard

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Evolution wanted to make sure we understood the universe is a cruel and chaotic place by making one thing everybody hates ride around on another thing everybody hates to make more of itself.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

I think Mother Nature is actually a real bitch because sometimes nature is elegant and beautiful but mostly it's kind of retarded and half-assed. and then there are some things that are just pure fucking horror like she was pissed that day and needed to make something suffer

did you know bedbugs reproduce by literally tearing a hole through their mates' exoskeleton and cumming in their fucking blood? check it:

Traumatic insemination - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

it is, as far as anyone can tell, a maladaption due to the fact that it causes a severe increase in mortality for the mother. but it persists because it's not enough of a survival risk to be culled by natural selection in the long term. apparently evolution does that sometimes, where it introduces bugs (heh) into organic systems that just never get fixed because they don't keep the organism down enough to kill them off

E: oh my fucking lord I just found this article

Parasitic castration - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Screamer_2]

Take any single biological function and go, "how did that exist?" There's an extremely large number or steps along the way. Lots of dead ends. Lots of steps along the way.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Eastern cicada killers do something similar with cicadas. Wasps are just massive cunts. Except fig wasps. Fig wasps hang out inside figs.

 

[Beak Thing]

I think Mother Nature is actually a real bitch because sometimes nature is elegant and beautiful but mostly it's kind of retarded and half-assed. and then there are some things that are just pure fucking horror like she was pissed that day and needed to make something suffer

Bats shrug off filoviruses like they're their long-lost cousins but these viruses will absolutely wreck any primate they come across.

I sometimes wonder if there was some kind of ancient war on this planet involving biological weapons, those viruses are supremely fucked up in terms of how lethally brutal they are, how targeted they are towards primates, and are virulent as all hell on top of it, but they stay put in their origin zones and have never expanded beyond these remote jungles and mountain caves.

I wonder what's out there?