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danger
ped and that’s just as
well because he is a
father and he’s guarding some very
precious
eggs for the last few few weeks females
one after the other have visited him and
entrusted him with their
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offspring some are now almost ready to
hatch there are several clutches on the
leaf and those at the top the most
recently laid are barely a day
old but in the jungle there’s always
someone out to get
you this wasp is a specialist Hunter of
Frog’s
eggs it’s noticed the wriggling tampol
at the bottom of the
leaf he mustn’t
move the youngest eggs are the most
vulnerable B and he can’t guard them
all but these tadpoles are not as
helpless as they might
appear
incredibly the unhatched T holes can
sense danger and the oldest and
strongest wriggle free and drop into the
stream
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below
the eggs at the top of the leaf however
are still too young to
hatch and now the Wasps know they’re
there but the male’s back looks very
like the youngest cluster of
eggs and that seems to confuse the
wasps
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using his own body as a decoy is a huge
risk the WASP things could kill
him
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he’s managed to save most of his
young
he’ll have to remain on guard for
another 2
weeks but in the jungle just surviving
the day can count as a
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success
