Your story is very beautiful and all these photos are beautiful, except the scorpion fly hahaha
Few insects scare me, and this is one of them. Have you heard of the Cavalo-do-cão ?
Your story is very beautiful and all these photos are beautiful, except the scorpion fly hahaha
Few insects scare me, and this is one of them. Have you heard of the Cavalo-do-cão ?
Thank you so much for your lovely words. I love photography and capturing insects in particular - but I've never actually invested in a good camera - I plan to soon! Yeah Scorpion flies are definitely pretty scary evil looking - although I just think they're badass🤘 and totally harmless! I hadn't ever heard of Cavalo-do-cão but I just looked it up - that is an absolute beast of a wasp! do you have them where you live? Are you in Brasil? And they parasitise spiders 😱 So cool. Parasitoid wasps are probably my favourite group of insects - they are stunningly elegant in their physiology! And super important for their ecology. Thanks for showing me this, it's made my day!
Oh thanks so much for the reply :)
Well, thank the gods I haven't seen those wasps around here. But on a little trip I took years ago, I ended up seeing one up close. Believe me, I was really scared and ran away xD
I would be way more scared of the spider its laying its eggs in! Those extra two legs send them way off the top of the creepiness scale 🕷️😳