Sensationally Thick Shins. Gasteruption assectator, Wild Carrot Wasp, on Angelica archangelica, Wild Celery, Jochum Hof, Steyl, Limburg, The Netherlands
Biking along the east banks of the Meuse River north from Reuver to Venlo, we stopped for a light lunch at the delightful Jochum Hof in Steyl. Originally a garden for teaching young missionaries to be sent to the heathens, it's today a pretty Botanical Wonderland, lovingly tended largely by volunteers.
Here in the vegetable patch is Spring-Young Wild Celery, Angelica archangelica, in the Middle Ages a cure-all especially for stomach problems, sore throats, constipations etc., etc. Apparently it was named 'archangelica' because the Archangel Michael showed denizens of our world for what to use it. In any case, slender Wild Carrot Wasp, Gasteruption assectator, knows her way around on the pale green umbles. Take note of her Thick Shins: they contain 'organs' which help her sense the movement of hosts hidden away in stems or wood. Once they've been 'found-out', Gasteruption will bore through cellulose and deposit her egg in such grubs. For a cousin Gasteruption, see my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/9597790755/in/photolist-
Sensationally Thick Shins. Gasteruption assectator, Wild Carrot Wasp, on Angelica archangelica, Wild Celery, Jochum Hof, Steyl, Limburg, The Netherlands
Biking along the east banks of the Meuse River north from Reuver to Venlo, we stopped for a light lunch at the delightful Jochum Hof in Steyl. Originally a garden for teaching young missionaries to be sent to the heathens, it's today a pretty Botanical Wonderland, lovingly tended largely by volunteers.
Here in the vegetable patch is Spring-Young Wild Celery, Angelica archangelica, in the Middle Ages a cure-all especially for stomach problems, sore throats, constipations etc., etc. Apparently it was named 'archangelica' because the Archangel Michael showed denizens of our world for what to use it. In any case, slender Wild Carrot Wasp, Gasteruption assectator, knows her way around on the pale green umbles. Take note of her Thick Shins: they contain 'organs' which help her sense the movement of hosts hidden away in stems or wood. Once they've been 'found-out', Gasteruption will bore through cellulose and deposit her egg in such grubs. For a cousin Gasteruption, see my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/9597790755/in/photolist-