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But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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Is There Parental Care in Insects?

In many species, the eggs are just a laid and pretty much abandoned. They don't havef an adult making dinner for them. But in some social insects, things like the social bees, ants and wasps, the babies are lucky enough to get fed by the the workers who will actually lovingly feed them. And there are some other species with parental care. So, for example, there's a group of beetles known as the burying beetles, or sexton beetles, where the adult beetles bury something like a mouse ar mushed up into what they call a brood ball. When the eggs hatch, the parents remain with the larvae, and they actually re gurgetate food for

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