Heather L. Montgomery - Bugs Dont Hug: Six-Legged Parents and Their Kids
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shoes or untangle hair.
extra, tiny eggs. Once her babies
hatch, the special eggs will be her
little ones first breakfast.
help cleaning up their poo.
hallway of his familys tree-tunnel
home. With his hind legs he pushes his
babies poop and kicks it out the door.
her young under her speckled shell.
It covers them like an armored skirt.
picky eaters.
perfect piece of fruit.
and hard for her babies favorite food.
Her picky little eaters will eat only one
kind of fruit, and it must be ripe.
little ones.
snooze in snuggly spots.
warm belly against her babies bedroom.
The heat she shares keeps her young
cozy even in the bitter Arctic cold.
cake of pig poop. Then she lays an egg
inside it. Later, her baby eats his way out!
Burying beetles do.
carve a bowl-shaped hole in mouse
meat. Their spit turns the meat into
a soupy meal for their little ones.
Bess beetles really do.
in a rotten log. Her mother and father
cover her with a blanket of shavings,
tucking her in tight.
or do they?
on her belly. If danger draws near,
she curls up to hug them close.
each egg over and over in her mouth, wiping it clean. Once
her young hatch, they eat miniature eggs laid by the mother.
Scientists are still trying to figure out if the eggs are a special
nutritional mealor unhatched siblings! The mother remains
in the burrow, guarding the nymphs, for the rest of her life.
ambrosia fungus. The mother beetle lays an egg in a tiny
cubby, called a cradle, and fills the hole with wood chips
and fungus. After hatching, the larva eats the pearly-looking
fungus. When its room gets messy, the larva pushes its poop
out into the main tunnel. The mother shoves the waste along
to the father, who dumps it outside.
for her young to hide. When her larvae grow too large to
fit under her shell, the mother climbs up and stands on top of
them. If a scary wasp or ant comes by, she uses her body like
a bulldozer to shove it away. Her young help out, too. They
wave bits of poop in the air to scare away the predator.
perfect fruit from one type of tree ( Schoepfia jasminodora ).
She then dutifully drags it home. Her journey isnt easy. The
fruit can weigh three times as much as she does. Other shield
bugs may try to steal it. And beastly beetles may lie in wait.
If she makes it home safely, her work isnt over. To satisfy
her young, she may need to gather forty more fruits.
her way to flowers. She gathers nectar (food for her) and
pollen (food for her young). Back in her nest she releases
heat through her abdomen. Even if the air outside drops
to freezing, she can warm the brood clump (where her
larvae live) to a toasty 86F (30C).
digging a nursery and dragging dung into it. The mother
makes a dung cake the size of a golf ball. To keep it moist
she frosts it with clay. Finally she lays an egg at one end.
Then she begins all over again, repeating the process up to
thirty times in just one season.
mouse or bird, they strip off its fur or feathers and bury it.
Underground they slather the body with a liquid from their
rear ends to clean it. Then they dig a hole in the mound
and add their spit to predigest the meat. The young gather
at the hole for a nutritious meal. The parents will also spit
food directly into the mouths of begging larvae.
so its parents prechew its food. The larva eats the wood with
a side dish of poop. When its time to pupate, the parents
and young work together to make a protective covering.
The adults pile on wood shavings and poop from the outside,
while the young shapes the covering from the inside. If the
larvas blanket is damaged during pupation, the parents
or an older sibling patch it up.
young pill bugs get their food, but scientists have a guess.
In addition to carrying her young, a mother pill bug may nurse
them. Near the joints in the mothers legs are several small pits.
The purpose of the pits is unknown, but the strawlike mouths
of the young are just the right size to fit into them. Perhaps
the young stick their mouths in and suck up roach milk.
Mmmmnutritious!
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