The Birds And The Bees
TED Radio Hour
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How Do You Collect Crickets in Hawaii?
Marline was looking for the pacific field cricket in Hawaii. She noticed that something was off when she saw males walking on top of the lawn. A parasitic fly could hear the sound of the cricket and would home in on that cricket, dropping it larvae on them. The larvae then burrow into the cricket, eat it from the inside out and kill the cricket.
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