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The Birds and The Bees

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The Genetic Loophole in Crickets

Marlene Zuck 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 fly larva would burrow into a cricket, eat it from the inside out and kill the cricket. It turned out there were these sound orienting parasitic flies in Hawaii no one had ever known were there.

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