image Robin’s Pincushion © Duncan Hutt
A little wasp called Diplolepsis
lays her eggs on a briar rose leaf.
Grubs emerge to feed on that,
which might be thought to harm.
Robin’s Pincushion
emerges soon –
a rosy
fluffy
gall.
I learned of this happy accident from my naturalist son-in-law’s blog post here and the nonet form is explained at Poetic Bloomings
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A lovely blend of form and theme here, Viv – delicately and beautifully done… With Best Wishes Scott
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*admiringly* You walked the tightrope of explaining that with nonet?
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Thanks Les.
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Two neat places to visit. Thanks.
There are other plants…the peonies – I think work in a similar fashion. Ants help to bring out the flower. Some are specific to certain varieties. Though the site I read said that some peonies don’t need ants at all.
We’ve got a special wasp here, a ground burrowing one that likes to eat cicadas’. It is actually called a Cicada Killer. I opened my shed a few weeks ago to see this little wasp carrying a cicada in it’s clutches!
There’s a place for everything.
I don’t eat avocados that often. Seeing as they are shipped here from either California or another country they aren’t exactly budget friendly either. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by.
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And a pretty picture too 🙂
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Pretty! Except for the wasp 🙂
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wow, I didn’t know it worked that way. Nature is pretty amazing.
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