DavidCrouch1
Potter Wasp
Saw this potter wasp just in time to see it stuff a small green caterpillar into its mud "pot". In the second image you can just see a little bit of green from the caterpillar. Potter wasps sting caterpillars just enough to paralyze them. They stock each mud pot with several caterpillars, lay an egg and then seal the pot. The egg hatches and the larva proceeds to eat the still living caterpillars.
Potter Wasp
Saw this potter wasp just in time to see it stuff a small green caterpillar into its mud "pot". In the second image you can just see a little bit of green from the caterpillar. Potter wasps sting caterpillars just enough to paralyze them. They stock each mud pot with several caterpillars, lay an egg and then seal the pot. The egg hatches and the larva proceeds to eat the still living caterpillars.