The mother’s elaborate dance helps her weave the beanstring onto the fork …

She works very carefully. Everything must be right …

The beanstrings are connected via tiny microscopic filaments … called bean strings.

Inside each one, something marvelous is happening …

(close up of bean twitching intermittently)

Inside the string, each bean is getting ready to squirm out of its casing in a matter of days or maybe just hours, and begin its new life … as a bean maggot