Pimpla hypochondriaca
Its hard to believe how people react sometimes. To other animals. I find it hard to believe that people go round killing sharks or crocodiles that have eaten someone, like these animals are supposed to know any different after millions of years of evolution have simply told them to 'eat it'....
But...if this had happened recently I would have had to take this person to task. What did they really think they were doing? And how could they justify their reaction??
Above is a parasitic wasp that I found in my moth trapa few days back. Yes, they sting...but lets have a little perspective here....look at the size of it for goodness sake....
Now lets examine a human reaction to finding one....from the Gardeners World Talkback page...
'I found one today, I'm already petrified of wasps so to see this new big scarey fly, i squirted Detol on it and killed it'.
Pathetic.
Well I guess most of us are guilty of such things at times. I get bees and butterflies come in the open door of my conservatory most warm and sunny days and I always catch them up and release them back outside. Should it be a wasp or bluebottle however, I swat them, likewise the mosquito in the bedroom at night. Can you honestly say that you don't swat the mosquito biting your arm and if you do, what's the difference between that and the wasp in your photo. I'm always amazed at how people separate some things up, some will happily eat a cow or lamb but wouldn't dream of eating a horse, for example.
ReplyDeleteIts not the actual killing that is the sad thing Graham, but the total lack of understanding of the natural world by most people. When little beasties like this parasitic wasp are gone, they will moan about how any bugs are destroying their garden plants. Even the well ''swatted'' wasp has it's part to play in keeping down numbers of the gardeners enemies.
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