Red wasp, right, MAGLEV
Conura, from the proposed 200 acre MAGLEV trainyard site on our Research Center in Maryland. These small parasitic wasps are thought (or so google indicates) to be hyperparasites...infecting other paarasites that have parasitized things like caterpillars. Unsure of what species. Lovely form, check out the expanded unusual legs with teeth. Photo by Cole Cheng.
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde. Original public domain image from Flickr