Some insects display a rudimentary sense of numbers, such as the solitary wasps that prey upon a single species. The mother wasp lays her eggs in individual cells and provides each egg with a number of live caterpillars on which the young feed when hatched. Some species of wasp always provide five, others twelve, and others as high as twenty-four caterpillars per cell. The number of caterpillars is different among species, but always the same for each sex of larva. The male solitary wasp in the genus Eumenes is smaller than the female, so the mother of one species supplies him with only five caterpillars; the larger female receives ten caterpillars in her cell. COUNT 5
QSN1 Insects have what kind of sense of numbers? ANS1 rudimentary QSN2 Which insect displays a rudimentary sense of numbers? ANS2 solitary wasps QSN3 What kind of species does a solitary wasp prey upon? ANS3 single QSN4 What does the mother wasp provide for her eggs when they hatch? ANS4 caterpillars QSN5 Is the male solitary wasp bigger or smaller than the female solitary wasp? ANS5 smaller