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created many of them with a rich potential for variation, each type
has emerged with a rich but bounded variation.
Accounting for the close interrelationships that appear be-
tween given plant and insect species has also become a problem for
the theory of evolution. Very often, two entirely different species

can survive only so long as they live together intimately, meshing
their life cycles. As you saw in previous chapters, plants and insects
emerged suddenly with their separate different structures.
However, between some of them there exist relationships based on

very sensitive interdependence. For example, the yucca moth polli-
nates the yucca's flowers and its larvae live only on the developing
yucca seeds. These bees have been equipped with special structures
that they may perform the pollination process. They have long
mouth structures to sip nectar and hairs to which pollens adhere.
Ants protect certain flowers, such as the acacia's, from harm and re-

ceive nectar in return. The butterfly species Xanthopan morgani prae-
dicta assists in the pollination of the Madagascar orchid by extend-
ing its 28-centimeter (11.02-inch) long proboscis into the 28 to 30
centimeter (11.02- to 11.81-inch) spur of the flower.

Some plants possess special traps for insects, and many insects
eat plants; flowers and leaves. The relationship between plant and
insect that evolutionists place no further back than 150 to 200 mil-
lion years ago has been totally altered by one recent discovery. The HARUN YAHYA
latest fossils of structures known as galls, and one of the most basic

relationships, show that this relationship between plant and insect
has been continuing for more than 300 million years. 130 During their
developmental stages some insects are protected and fed in these (ADNAN OKTAR)
structures, which form on the leaves and stems of certain plants.

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