I crushed the first green bug that got in through my south-facing window just to be done with it: three days later, when I counted the ones on the same pane, I understood what I had left behind
A gardener crushed a single green aphid on a sunny windowpane. Three days later, dozens covered the same glass. What seemed like a simple solution revealed a hidden colony—and an astonishing reproductive strategy that most people never encounter until it’s too late.