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The tiny aphid seems like an unbelievable critter taken out of the latest science fiction story. In the spring only female aphids are hatched from eggs. These aphids start having female babies without the benefit of male fertilization. These little ones are born alive and begin eating everything green they can find. Before long the plant they live on is covered with little crawling munchers and soon there is nothing left to eat. So, for some unknown
 reason females with wings are born. These females fly to the next plant and start having wingless female babies.

This is strange, but there are other strange things to come.
Now we have another critter that comes into the life of the aphid. Normally an ant would make a meal out of a fat little green thing like the aphid. But, for some strange, unknown reason the ant and aphid are friends. The ant strokes the back of the aphid and gets food. The ant protects aphids from predators and carries aphid eggs indoors for the winter.
The story gets even stranger.
In the fall male aphids are finally born. These critters do not have mouths, and their only purpose is to fertilize the eggs that start appearing. The male does his job and dies. Without this unique happening there would be no aphids in the spring.

These stories of God’s creation are better than science fiction!