Thursday, July 15, 2010

Check this thing out!

Mercy! Crumby is innocently working on a project. The purpose of the project is to take pictures of and identify all the great many bee genera or species that come to Physostegia correllii. Well mercy!

Suddenly this little vermin which is under 5mm in length lands on a leaf. At a distance Crumby figures, well, that could be a Hymenopteran. So Crumby took its picture. Fer heaven’s sake! What the heck is it?

Thunder thighs! Er. Thunder tibia!

Huh! OK. It's actually the femurs that are swole' up. Turns out, this is a parasitic wasp, Family Chalcidiae, Conura amoena. Boy howdy! Every household should have a copy of Borrow, Delong and Triplehorn.

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