Articles tagged with: Wasp
Content to settle for an attitude of optimistic pathos,
a parasitic wasp surprised me in the shadows,
the last braconid practitioner of cyanotype photograms.
A chance meeting with a tiny wasp,
its shadow carelessly thrown across a leaf,
needed no longer, called back home
by the sun.
Bug Dreams, my newest book, is now available. Bug Dreams, a 40 page hardcover book with dustjacket, takes you deep into a green microwilderness, a dreamless moment of light.
From the introduction by Kathe Koja:
”In the green world, all days are one Day, and evening is a dreamless moment. The philosophy of life there is quite simple, but expressed in a million ways, a billion: the twitch of compound eyes, the ballet stretch of a leg, the fierce distension of a mandible.”
For more information, see preview images and order a copy of Bug Dreams, follow the ant.
When the devil meets me at the crossroads, I want this guy at my side.
A kick-ass Detroit yellow jacket wasp waits for you.
Alex Wild at the Myrmecos blog recently posted an excellent photo of a Cotesia congretata wasp ovipositing into a Manduca hornworm (below).
It reminded me of an image I posted last year, a chance meeting of young and old, big and small. A Sawfly larva dwarfs an adult fly in this demonstration of a Vulcan mind meld.
A sawfly larvae on a leaf melts away into shallow depth-of-field in my lawn.
Fake eye spots, big head, almost too cute, they’re actually primitive wasps.
A yellow-jacket wasp rounds the bend of a fern leaf in a wet but vibrant backyard Toronto garden. It was hard to keep up with this wasp as it disappeared into the foliage.
Crouching in my backyard, the sun reflects off dense foliage,
the wasp is poised on a green leaf – and the combination of all these elements
produced this spotlight portrait.
This braconid wasp is another very beneficial insect
to find in your garden – and a lovely one as well.
