Tags: Arachnid.
Adactylidium is a genus of mites known for its unusual life cycle. The pregnant female mite feeds upon a single egg of a thrips growing five to eight female offspring and one male in her body. The offspring devour their mother from the inside out and the single male mite mates with all the daughters when they are still in the mother. The females now impregnated cut holes in their mother’s body so that they can emerge to find new thrips eggs.