HOW DOES SHE KNOW?
Not least among marvels are those revealed by the insect world. A wasp, for instance, will overpower a grasshopper, and when she has dug a hole in the earth will sting the grasshopper in just the right place to make it unconscious without killing it. Mother wasp will then lay her eggs near the grasshopper, fly away, and before the wasp children can hatch out, will die. She never sees her offspring. As the baby wasps hatch out they nibble at the unconscious grasshopper. Dead meat would kill the young insects, but here mother wasp has provided living meat. How did she know what her babies would need?
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 41, 14 January 1949, Page 7
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112HOW DOES SHE KNOW? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 41, 14 January 1949, Page 7
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