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lada2 wrote :
wasps lay their eggs in dead insects.
perhaps, she decided to
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Actually they don't lay the eggs in dead insects. they sting them to paralyze them so the little ones have fresh meat to feed on when they hatch.
 
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When I was a kid while visiting my grandma in Illinois, I saw a wasp attack a cicada in flight. The cicada fell to the ground. It looked dead so I stuck a pin through it and put it in my bug collection in a cigar box. After we had gotten back home to Calif. and some time later I looked in the box and there was dead wasp in it. At the time I couldn't figure it out but of course later I learned what had happened. Was interesting. I also have broken open a mud wasp nest cell and a bunch of paralyzed spiders fell out. Ok, nature lesson over.
 
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Altair wrote :
When I was a kid while visiting my grandma in Illinois, I saw a wasp attack a cicada in flight. The cicada fell to the ground. It looked dead so I stuck a pin through it and put it in my bug collection in a cigar box. After we had gotten back home to Calif. and some time later I looked in the box and there was dead wasp in it. At the time I couldn't figure it out but of course later I learned what had happened. Was interesting. I also have broken open a mud wasp nest cell and a bunch of paralyzed spiders fell out. Ok, nature lesson over.
We used to collect those cicada shells off pine trees and stick them to each other, lol. And hey there, hi there, ho there, nice to see you, Altair!!!!!
 
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did you ever eat chocolate covered cicada?
 
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timeless2 wrote :
did you ever eat chocolate covered cicada?
Ok that jus sounds gross.

And! I need more of a nature lesson, or I'm jus a dunce or somethin.
I dont get the whole magic trick of a cicada turnin into a wasp?





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pds857 wrote :
Ok that jus sounds gross.

And! I need more of a nature lesson, or I'm jus a dunce or somethin.
I dont get the whole magic trick of a cicada turnin into a wasp?





*Squeaks* esplan pweese?
This species nests in the ground and provisions its nest with cicadas. As in many insect species, the males appear as adults first, and mating takes place when adult females emerge from the soil. After mating, females select a site and being digging a burrow. Favorite sites are embankments, under sidewalks and roadsides. Commonly, lawns are chosen in populated areas. Soil or sand is first loosened with the front legs, then scooted out of the hole with her middle and hind legs. Sometimes the female enters the burrow and pushes out soil with her head and front legs. Females burrow into the soil for approximately ten inches, with a channel of about half an inch. Oval chambers are excavated at the end of the burrow, large enough to accommodate a few individual cicadas. The female then seeks a cicada in the trees, apparently by vision rather than sound, suggested because the majority of her prey are female cicadas which make no sound. Cicadas are usually captured in flight. Cicadas are paralyzed by the venom of the wasp's sting, and will remain alive during the feeding of the wasp larvae. After stinging the cicada, the female wasp carries it back to her burrow, sometimes a hundred yards away. She sometimes uses the law of physics by climbing a tree or shrub and partly gliding with the cicada in the direction of her burrow. Without the presence of trees or shrubs, she will walk on the ground. The female Cicada Killer lays one egg in a cell with one, two or three cicadas, then seals the chamber. Cicada Killers adhere to the normal pattern of solitary wasps by mass provisioning their brood cell. The cells are prepared and completed one by one. Enough food is provided in the cell for the larva to survive until pupation. Rarely solitary wasps engage in progressive provisioning, which involves caring for several cells at one time and adding food daily to each cell during the growth of the larvae. The eggs of the Cicada Killer hatch in two or three days, producing larvae that feed for about two weeks, which then spin a cocoon of silk mixed with sand or soil. The pupal case is held in the center of the cell by silk strands, and the cocoons remain in the chamber through the winter, with emergence as adults in the following summer.

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hasn't any of you watches Bizzare Foods with Andrew Zimmerman. and some of the stuff he has eaten
 
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