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When Worms Fly: Insect larvae can survive bird guts
Susan Milius 
Researchers in Spain have shown a novel way for insects to travel—as larval  
stowaways in the guts of migrating birds. "It's the first time insects have  
been shown to be carried inside birds," reports Andy J. Green of the Doñana  
Biological Station in Seville. He and a colleague examined droppings in a salt  
marsh roosting site of waterbirds called black-tailed godwits. The birds were  
feeding by the thousands on their way from northern breeding grounds to their 
 winter homes in Africa.  

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Pete Myers
White Hall, Virginia