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Special Pleiades: Description

27" x 23"; Oil on Wood.
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The ichneumon fly is a parasitic wasp that paralyzes it’s prey and then inserts it’s eggs so that the larvae will have a living but immobile host to feed upon until they mature and eat their way out. In private letters, Charles Darwin used this fly’s example to argue against the idea of a compassionate creator.

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