Do not Read if Easily Disgusted by Dumb Analogies

Today during Biology I learnt about the fig wasps and these mites inside the figs which stick onto the female wasps (for whatever strange reason). Usually, they don't harm the female wasps directly, but in the event that there are very few female wasps and millions and millions of mites, the female wasp becomes very heavily laden with mites and the male wasps then refuse to mate with her.

Typical...

So now the poor female wasp can still lay eggs, but they can only lay eggs which give rise to male offspring.

Hurumph. :oP

So this little female wasp here has to learn how to get rid of her mites, or to find a strong male wasp that won't mind the many many mites about her person.

This entry is making me cringe, so I have to stop now.