Lies about crossbreeding of insects

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Lies about crossbreeding of insects.

Humor. · Humor of lies and exaggeration · Lies about animals. · Lies about insects. · view the constellation · filed as X1280.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

U.S.*Baughman.

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Filed under Lies about insects.

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Bumblebees imported to rout mosquitoes; the two insects crossbreed and have stingers on both ends

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Carried in tale types

The Great Insect · ATU 1960M2 recorded variants

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