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        1 year ago

        The mother’s elaborate dance helps her weave the beanstring onto the fork …

        She works very carefully. Everything must be right …

        The beanstrings are connected via tiny microscopic filaments … called bean strings.

        Inside each one, something marvelous is happening …

        (close up of bean twitching intermittently)

        Inside the string, each bean is getting ready to squirm out of its casing in a matter of days or maybe just hours, and begin its new life … as a bean maggot