Egg Stack Opened (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Egg Stack Opened

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This is a seed beetle egg stack. The blackened parts of the eggs tell of a wasp hijacking them to raise their own larvae. But once pried open, the egg stack reveals a third egg, left unharmed under the protection of the upper two.

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Joseph Deas

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