Amateur Gardening

A bug’s life

PHIDS reproduce so quickly, they make the fabled old woman who lived in a shoe look like a poster girl for family planning. Never mind speed dating – aphids don’t even need to mate to produce young and, unusually for insects, waste no time hatching from eggs. Instead, they cut to

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