Jun 22 2009
Willy and Cathy
While I was talking to the FedEx guy this morning, I noticed something crawling on the ground next to the Aspen trees. Upon closer inspection I saw Willy, the fearless Wasp, trying to convince Cathy, the fat Caterpillar, to come with him. I watched them for 10 mins while the wasp tried to get off the ground with the caterpillar. It is without exaggeration when I say that the caterpillar must have weighed at least 20 times more than the wasp. Still the little insect would not rest and several times it looked like the wasp was actually getting that fat, green thing off the ground.
When I looked again in the afternoon, I saw the caterpillar dead next to the trees with ants all over it. Photo above rendered at 100% size for extra ewwww-factor 
July 6th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Nature, forever fascinating and weird.
Thank you for the post!
July 7th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
If you were a real animal lover you would have cut the caterpillar in half.