waspish

Do not be deceived.

hover fly
There are many imitations.
Continue reading “waspish”

fragments

The photo shows what was going on on my verandah once the sun warmed up this morning and brought the wasps out to feed on a small corpse which I assume was left there by the cats.

wasps scavenging at a cricket corpse
The villagers here in Spain would call it a langosta, I think. Even with my limited knowledge of the animal world, I do know it’s not a lobster, but I’m not sure if it was actually a locust, a cricket, a grasshopper or a katydid. Whatever it was, though:
Continue reading “fragments”

%d bloggers like this: