• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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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