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Born pregnant: This bizarre insect has one of nature’s wildest reproductive hacks
While it may sound like science fiction, but for
tiny sap-sucking aphids, this is real biology. These pear-shaped insects, also known as plant lice, are major agricultural and garden pests that feed on plant sap. Some aphid species are famous for a reproductive phenomenon so bizarre that scientists call it “telescoping generations.” In simple terms, a female aphid can be born with developing daughters already inside her, and those daughters may themselves already contain the beginnings of the next generation.
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