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220: No Such Thing As A Million Dots

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Are There More Wasps Than Beetles?

There are 300 nd 80 thousand species of beetle, which is a quarter of all animal species. A scientist reckons that wasps outnumber even beetles by about two and a half times. Even if you find a new beetle, it's probably got loads of wasps living in it. And there's a really cool parasitic wasp called the green eyed wasp,. It lays its eggs inside a lady bird, and then when they hatch, they immediately weave this cocoon between this lady bird's legs. This paralyzes the lady bird, but it also sort of possesses the ladybird, so turns it into a zombe. Messed up was, yes, please? Oh

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