And the Sea

Heinrich Böhmer

characins and such from Argentina

psalidodon anistisi

holosthesthes pequira

aphyocharax anisitsi

characidium rachovii

mylossoma duriventre

pseudocorynopoma doriae

Splendid Fairywren (Malurus splendens), family Maluridae, order Passeriformes, Australia

Pink noctuid moth (no common name), Philareta treitschkei, Noctuidae

It is found in Turkey, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Iran and the Levant.

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Have you ever unfurled a paperclip to reach into a narrow hole? Now did that hole happen to be the nest of a tiny mason wasp? Or perhaps the nest of some other megachilid bee such as resin or leafcutter bee? And your paperclip is actually your biological structure for laying eggs? If you came across a wasp using a hollow reed as a nest, much like those aforementioned bees would, would you also use your paperclip lance to lay eggs in that too even though researchers are unsure that's a viable host your babies can live off of?