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Klaus343 posted...

Someone once told me of the lifecycle of the Adactylidium.

Which goes something like this:
A pregnant mite eats a single egg of a thrips (Which itself is a small insect), then the single male of the clutch impregnates all it's sisters (which number 4 to 5), when upon being impregnated in their mother's body, eat their way out of their mother (from the inside out).
Upon leaving their mother's corpse they seek out a thrips, to eat a single egg to continue the cycle of life.

So the female mite only has one male baby who's able to get his sisters pregnant before they're born? Why does the mother only eat one thrip egg and what does the egg do?