Quick, get your camera ready! There's a wasp! Ever heard anyone say that? We remember capturing an image of a European paper wasp, Polistes dominula, that had just shredded a caterpillar and was about to fly the prey back to her colony. It was a Gulf Fritillary caterpillar, Agraulis vanillae. Score: European paper wasp: 1; Gulf Fritillary caterpillar, 0. Then there was the beewolf, a crabronid wasp from the genus Philanthus, that almost made a fatal mistake. It landed on the same buckwheat...
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