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Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
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This Mother is Eaten by
Her Children-from the Inside
To partially understand the
strange and terrible thing
that can happen to the hero
ine of this true story, it is
necessary to know a few of
the peculiar habits and bi
zarre requirements of this
species of insect that science
classifies as a parasitic wasp.
For some little understood
reason, Nature designed some
of the wasps to demand un
usual location for the dis
position of their eggs - very
unorthodox locations in
which the baby wasps will
be in the living body of an
other insect whose unwilling
tissues will furnish food for
hungry mouths.
The fact that the host will
be eaten alive is of no con
cern to the mother wasp or
of the baby wasps that will
hatch. The, mother wasp, how
ever, is somewhat choosy as
to the particular variety of
insect in which she deposits
her precious egg. She instinc
'. Jively knows what kind and
where that variety is most
apt to be found. She will ac
cept ho other kind of host.
But that's where the system
sometimes backfires and slaps
her right where she had
planned to slap something
else.
The preferred victim on
whose body the wasp lays her
eggs hatches out and reaches
the proper stage of develop
ment at the same time the
wasp is in the egg - laying
stage. The same device oper
ates all through Nature's devi
ous maneuverings; the hatch
ing out of great numbers of
mosquitoes, for' instance, trig
gers somehow the birth of
thousands of dragonflies who
will prey on the mosquitoes.
The mother wtspj with the
inner pressure of eggs hur
rying her on, knows there
will be the proper variety of
caterpillar on which she can
deposit her egg: an egg
which, under the ideal tem
perature and moisture re
quirements supplied by the
unwilling caterpillar's body,
will hatch out and be sur
rounded by the fresh, living
food-body of the host for the
baby wasp to eat.
So she sallies forth, this
''female wasp, swoops down
onto the cringing back of her
victim and deposits her egg.
Then she hurries on, search
ing for another victim of the
same kind. Now her sense of
timing must be of the split-
second variety, for she is
actually monkeying with a
time-bomb"-a "time-bomb"
in the shape of an egg; an egg
that has to be handled care
fully. . -
Sometimes it happens that
Hungary Children
.Being Questioned
Munich, Germany - (UPD -The
18th birthday for Hungar
ian teenagers is a day of fear
and dread, reliable Iron Cur
tain reports said Saturday. At
'-. 18 they are legally liable for
seizure and questioning by
secret police.
The reports said the teen
agers were being interrogated
and sometimes jailed - in
connection with their roles in
the 1956 anti-Communist up
rising in which even children
took part.
Many parents were report
ed sending their teenage chil
dren to isolated parts of the
country to escape questioning
of the secret police.
she cannot find the proper
host when she is ready to lay
her. Cgg. She flies on, search
ing frantically, and the heat
and moisture of her own body
acts on the eggs. They will
hatch as .readily in her own
body as they will in the body
of an intended victim. When
they do, the hungry young,
born hungry and each armed
with sharp cutting teeth and
sucking mouth parts, begin to
eat the tissue and suck the
juices with which they are
surrounded, which in this un
happy case are the tissues of
their own mother.
- Without the proper host
the mother hurries on, and
incubation within her body
goes on apace. The young
hatch, they eat their mother
from the inside. Soon she
falls from the sky-eaten alive
by her own children-by her
own offspring who have nev
er been born;
(Released by The Register
and Tribune Syndicate, 1959)
Chinese Foiled in
Try To Steal U.S.
Coded Messages
New. Delhi (UPD Two
Chinese thugs made an abor
tive attempt to steal coded
United States diplomatic tele
grams from an Indian mes
senger for the American con
sulate in Bombay, it was re
ported reliably Saturday.
This was the second vio-(
lent contact between Amer
icans and Chinese in Bombay
in two days.
The U. S. embassy Satur
day night formally protested
the kidnaping of U. S. Marine
Sgt. Robert Armstrong in
Bombay. American officials
charged he was dragged from
a taxicab by six Chinese
Communists and then was
tied by the neck and hands
and beaten.
A few hours after the pro
test was handed to Indian of
ficials, reliable sources said
Anadan Andrew, an Indian
messenger, was attacked by
Chinese shortly after he left
the Bombay telegraph office
with coded telegrams ad
dressed to U. S. diplomats.
Reports from Bombay said
Andrew claimed" he could
identify his assailants, two
husky Chinese . thugs, who
seized him and demanded uie
telegrams. :
Andrew was said to have
broken loose and fled. He
iunueri aboard a bus and
reached the consulate saieiy
Armstrong had rope burns
on is neck and back but an
examination at a hospital
showed he suffered only "su
perficial injuries."
Szt. ' Robert Armstrong,
Marine who was captured and
released Friday by the Chi
nese Communist consulate in
Bombay.: India, formerly at
tended Lincoln school in Med-
ford.
The family later moved to
California. He- is a grandson
of the late Mr. and Mrs. E.
M. Hussong. His mother was
the late Dorothy Hussong
Armstrong, who worked in
the office of Snider Dairy for
several years.
Sergeant Armstrong is a
nephew of Mrs. C. L. Wolff,
31 Church st., Ashland; Mrs.
Howard Glascock, 233 Beatty
st., Medford; Mrs. Georgiana
Buer, 214 South Barneburg
rd., ' Medford, and Frank
Hussong, 56 South Barneburg
rd., Medford.
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