You will see that the red and black wasp is carrying a grasshopper about twice its size. The wasp seems perfectly built for this job; its mandibles hold the grasshoppers antennae and its two pairs of front legs are wrapped around the grasshopper as if in an embrace. The wasps rear legs are long enough to straddle the grasshopper and keep walking but what i saw that after a few failed attempts of take off because of weight ,it finally flew away with it almost more than 20ft in the air with great sprint and lead it to this hole . Why would a( id help) wasp carry a grasshopper, you might ask? And why is the much larger grasshopper putting up with this? The unfortunate grasshopper is about to become a stored food supply for the wasps future offspring. Mother wasp has probably already delivered a few paralyzing stings. She will carry the grasshopper to a nice sandy spot, dig a hole, drag the grasshopper underground, lay an egg on it, and then refill the hole. When the egg hatches the newborn wasp larva will be sitting on the delicious grasshopper that its mother caught for it. The one pictured below was digging a hole in the sandy beach of river Ganga outside my Tent . There were about a dozen wasps nearby, all digging holes or dragging grasshoppers from the leaves under the bushes to the sandy strip of waiting holes .
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:55:20 +0000
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