Page 154 - Design in Nature

The acorn weevil
uses its head
during drilling,
just as is shown
in the figure
above.

the signal for the larva that it is time to leave. By means of its strong teeth, it
enlarges the hole that its mother made. The extremely fat larva gets out of the
acorn with a great deal of struggle. Now the goal for the larva is to tunnel

down about 10-12 inches (25-30 centimetres) under the ground. There it goes
through pupation and waits for one to five years. When it becomes a full
grown adult, it climbs up and starts drilling acorns in turn. The time
differential in the pupation period depends on the new growth of the acorns
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on the tree. The interesting life cycle of the acorn weevil is another evidence
of the flawless creation of Allah,
and it nullifies the

arguments of the theory of
evolution. Each mechanism
of the insect has been