When I lived on St. Helena (in the South Atlantic, not the USA) I once watched a large green wasp mesmerising a cockroach by circling around it at a distance of a few inches, then diving in and stinging it, presumably at least stunning if not killing, Sounds like similar behaviour.
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Walt Gilbert Sent: Sunday, 28 August 2011 2:05 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO: Cicada Smile On 8/26/2011 1:58 PM, steve harley wrote: > On 2011-08-24 21:52 , Walt Gilbert wrote: >> I caught this one alive, making his way up a support beam in the >> garage one night as I was having a lovely beverage. I named him >> "Coolio" -- because I was drunk. >> >> Again, this was shot with my K 50/1.4 on the K-x with a reversing >> ring. ISO 100, f/11, 1/180 with flash. >> >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/6078219457/ > > cool shot > > fond memories of Lawrence Kansas circa 1970 and watching a rather > large and at first quite scary cicada wasp drag a stunned cicada up a > tree; the pair launches from a tree something roughly like the space > shuttle ferried by a 747, except they can't sustain flight, so it's > really a shallow dive to reach a destination by segments; then they > lay eggs in the not-dead cicada, which will become food for little > wasplets > > Thanks, Steve. That must've been at least a little disconcerting to witness! I've never never knew cicada wasps existed until now. I think I may have actually taken a photo of one a while back that turned out pretty decent. It's now on a defunct hard drive, so I can't pull it up to post it, unfortunately. But, that's actually what initially fired my interest in taking macros, oddly enough. I looked them up in Google image search and they do look an awful lot like the one I photographed a while back. Interesting story, in any event. -- Walt -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
