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Even though you have been paying less today than what you did throughout almost all four years of Biden.

But your memories are about the size of a frickin' Nats and barely three seconds long.

And you haven't figured this out yet.

Yeah, you're going to make everybody pay now.

And we'll talk about that.

And the Nats, the Nats in Iowa that he's run into elsewhere also.

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You mean you eat flies? gasped Wilbur.

Certainly.

Flies, bugs, grasshoppers, beetles, moths, butterflies, cockroaches, gnats, midgets, daddy longlegs, centipedes, mosquitoes, crickets, anything that is a careless enough animal to get caught in my web.

I gotta live, haven't I? Of course, but do they taste very good?

Delicious.

Her campaign against insects seemed sensible and useful.

Hardly anybody around the farm had a good word to say for a fly.

Flies spent their time pestering others.

And I mean, I have to admit, it's kind of ironic that I didn't really start slapping insects until I was just being as strict as I could, just living out in the forest with no roof, no walls, just living out in the woods and just being... an open target for any kind of parasitic flying insect that comes along.

The insect order Diptera is just awful.

And so mosquitoes, I mean, I could kind of be patient with mosquitoes even though I got malaria every time I went to that forest.

But the biting flies, like horse flies, or there's a kind of sand fly.

I talked about that when the manflies got spotlighted with part of their own episode.

The manflies of the Village of the Flies, being horn-sent that are afflicted with the plague that's going around and eventually experience the metamorphosis that they go through, they retain a humanoid upper body and head, typically wrapped in soiled linens, which, that's unsettling, but They grow large, veined insect wings in an elongated, segmented fly abdomen.

They crawl on six legs and hover just above the ground, gathering together in that squalid village, the village of the flies.

The lore even states that the transformation was believed in that Hornsent society to actually free them from their suffering the moment it was completed.

Read by Jonathan Kirk.

Chapter 2 The Insect World Continued Two-Winged Insects Diptera Years ago in Berlin, my German landlady called me in as an expert to decide a controversy between her children and herself as to whether a frog had four legs or six.

It seemed strange to me then that a grown-up woman should not know the number of a frog's legs.

Yet there'll be many who read these pages who do not know how many wings a fly has, and flies are much more important than frogs.

than

any other creatures in the world.

these portraits are of a few only of the vast myriads of forms of two-winged insects which haunt the world were i to photograph just one individual of each different species which inhabit the globe i would have to spend a lifetime doing it and when it was finished it would make five hundred volumes about the size of this one there should never be the slightest difficulty in telling a fly from other insects for there are no other two-winged forms although the flies are sucking insects their beaks lap up liquid food and are not at all like the beaks of the bugs in the great majority of flies the beaks resemble a trunk with curious fleshy folds or lips it is true some species like the mosquito have long sharp-pointed stylets which working up and down puncture the skin of plants and animals the larval forms of many flies are maggots those squirming often almost headless creatures that abound in rotting carcasses or decaying matter of all kinds and this is one of the reasons why less is known about the flies than about some others of the insect world which have selected less revolting birthplaces of course in such a gigantic family no general rules apply and still a maggot whether in an orange or a dead horse is most likely to be the larva of a diptera or two-winged insect the crane fly limnobia species every lover of the autumn woods must have noticed on some still october day in the little clearings in the woods these awkward long-legged flies which frightened by the approach of a human being gather their ungainly hind legs together behind and their fore legs in front of them and slowly and laboriously flutter upward into the sunlight they are well named these creatures the crane flies for their legs are as long and apparently much more useless than those of the crane in fact some entomologists have expressed themselves as wondering why they have such legs at all for they are so fragile that they break at the slightest touch They belong to a family with a thousand species in it, and perhaps the most peculiar thing about them is that some forms of the family live and fly about when there is snow on the ground.

This is a very rare exception in the insect world.

[laughing]

Nats.

Everywhere they turn, they've got nats everywhere.

[laughing]

Among these denizens of the trees and shrubs were various beetles and other big arthropods that laid big eggs, which hatched big larvae.

These fat, nutrient-rich, and typically defenseless creatures were irresistible, and in short order, a strain of wood wasps known as the ancestral Vespina had adapted a parasitoid lifestyle.

They had adapted to lay their eggs on beetle larvae, and when the Vespina larvae hatch, they eat the beetle from the inside out.

This was the first evolution of parasitism within Hymenoptera.

The wasp larvae will hatch and move on their own power towards the host, attacking their defenseless form and digging in from the outside.

With the evolution of these new parasitoid birthing strategies, the lineage became very successful.

The descendants of this ancestral population would split into two large groups, both of them taxonomically ranked somewhere between an order and a family.

These two groups were the Oryasoidea and the Apocrata, and they diverged sometime in the early Jurassic, around 175 to 200 million years ago.