Meet Your Creator: Greenkill 2013 November, 2013 | Page 7

MEET YOUR CREATOR: APPRECIATING HASHEM’S GREAT OUTDOORS

For the
Ammophila
wasp, even
loose grains
may tip-off
predators in
discovering
the nest

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et us now inspect the Ammophila wasp. On its forelegs,
it possesses a broom of stiff bristles to rake the lose soil
from the burrow which it digs in the sand. It never

leaves loose grains near the nest since dangerous predators may
discover the nest; rather it carries the loose soil elsewhere. When
temporarily leaving the burrow, it camouflages the entrance with
bits of available materials. When the wasp deposits an egg inside
the nest, she seals it completely. She uses a pebble to pack down
the soil, which is an instance
of an insect using a tool. It
maintains

several

nests,

visiting them to restock them
with caterpillars. She does
not kill these caterpillars
since then they would decay. Rather, she paralyzes them by using
a poison that she produces, and leaves them as a store of food for
the larvae that will emerge from the eggs.

She knows
how to
protect her
offspring and
feed them –
knowledge
granted to
them by '???

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ot a bad day’s work for an insect. All of these actions
are completed by the wasp with the innate
knowledge granted to them by '? .??She knows how to

protect her offspring, create the perfect atmosphere for them, and
feed them in just the proper way. We may think that they went to
school to learn all of this, while in fact they were born with this
ingenuity.

Notice the broom of stiff bristles on its legs

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