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- ... that Li Zhenxiu (pictured) was sworn into Taiwan's Legislative Yuan while still holding Chinese citizenship?
- ... that a high-school fish-hatchery program was disrupted when more than 100,000 US gallons (380,000 L; 83,000 imp gal) of chlorinated water leaked into Chimacum Creek?
- ... that Rat Watson, a 141-pound (64 kg) quarterback, led "the greatest football team ever assembled in Texas", outscoring opponents 432 to 6?
- ... that The Dream of Belinda combines imagery from The Rape of the Lock with the Queen Mab of Romeo and Juliet?
- ... that, according to legend, the poet Charles Baudelaire tried to organize a mob to kill his stepfather during the French Revolution of 1848?
- ... that "A Media Luz" ("With Dimmed Lights") is one of the most successful tango compositions of all time?
- ... that Princess Thonbanhla is honored annually on the eve of the full moon with a ceremony funded by local villagers?
- ... that more than a quarter of Pennsylvania voters opposed a 2021 constitutional amendment to prohibit racial and ethnic discrimination?
- ... that Bernard Chen, the general manager of Fraser and Neave's soft‑drinks division, was allergic to alcohol?
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Scoliidae, or the scoliid wasps, is a family of around 300 described species of wasps found worldwide. They are solitary parasitoids whose larvae develop on the larvae of other insects, most commonly the scarab beetle. Females search for hosts in soil or rotting wood, sometimes following tunnels created by the beetle larvae. After locating a host, the female stings and paralyses it and may move it into a chamber before laying a single egg on the immobilised grub. Because many scarab beetles are agricultural pests, scoliid wasps can act as important biological control agents. Adult wasps often visit flowers and may function as minor pollinators. In some species, orchid flowers mimic female wasps and attract males, which attempt to mate with the flowers and thereby pollinate them. This male scoliid wasp of the species Megascolia bidens was photographed near Soliman on Cape Bon, a peninsula in northeastern Tunisia.
Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp
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