@ridragon submitted: she was in my house by accident, so i grabbed a strawberry from the fridge and took a bite so she could smell the juice and offered it to her, she climbed on it and I took her outside! it was terrifying. but i did it! after a minute she felt comfortable enough to actually eat too, i think the walking outside was kinda scary for her.
Paper wasps can be quite chill! This one is VERY cute and I'm glad she was safely brought outside to enjoy her snack :)
i know oli is straight but i think my brain has subconsciously filed him away as a gay man because i have to consciously think about it in order to remember he's actually straight. also i don't watch him at all other than the odd clip that crosses my dash
you guys talk about him like this im kinda on board with it. the girls the gays and oli theorionsound if it's not too much trouble thanks guys
Imagine being so teeny tiny that you are an endoparasite on *leafhoppers* Leafhoppers are already in the "so small they go unnoticed" category, and you're just a little pest on a minuscule thing.
Of course the group that's most likely to choose this life? The wasps Wasps are some of the smallest insects. There are "fairy flies" that are parasites of the eggs of certain insects.
They are so small that air is "thick" to them and their wings have feathered edges are are oar shaped.
Some fairly flies are so tiny that their neurons are cells without nuclei. They got rid of them to save space. They can still think though... presumably the tiniest little thoughts.
Photo by Alexey Polilov, 2012
They lay their eggs inside of the eggs of 1-2mm long crop pests.
And... read the article to see what the males are like... they are even smaller somehow, but it's ... disturbing.
Drawing of the day: Megarhyssa greenei. Bonus mini collage of my favourite non-cartoon wasp drawings. I plan on adding more as I go along. For now, this is only a sample. Drawing wasps is keeping me sane during these dark times. Which one is your favourite?