Podisus sp

Ma! Crumby wearies of sps. Too many sps in these parts. Crumby may be fixing to make up species names for the CB insects in these many instances where identification is impossible.

Anyhow, once again it is eat or be et time at the CB. And if anybody deserves to get et, besides the hoof rats, it’s the Chlosyne lacinia caterpillars.

Here is a Podisus soldier bug with a harpooned caterpillar. That particular caterpillar has already eaten up most of the annual sunflowers and was fixing to start on the verb virgin when the bug got the duda. Do you believe in an eye fer an eye, balance, equivalence, tit for tat, turn about, even Steven, six of one, half a dozen of another, the dialectic? Probably not.

Shot from a good ways off with a great many leaves in the way in the shade. 70-300 at 179, cropped.