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Callirhytis_seminator2_2023-05-26 SW Michigan USA This shelters the eggs and developing larvae of a tiny wasp. It continues to amaze me how beautiful and intricate nature can be- and why? What evolutionary advantage does this tiny wasp have to create something as beautiful as this? Callirhytis seminator,Geotagged,Spring,United States,Wool Sower Gall Click/tap to enlarge

Callirhytis_seminator2_2023-05-26 SW Michigan USA

This shelters the eggs and developing larvae of a tiny wasp. It continues to amaze me how beautiful and intricate nature can be- and why? What evolutionary advantage does this tiny wasp have to create something as beautiful as this?

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  1. I think trying to answer that soon turns philosophical, and thus human :) Posted one year ago

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Callirhytis seminator is a parasitoid wasp in the gall wasp family (Cynipidae) found in the eastern United States.

Species identified by Jon Reck
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By Jon Reck

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Uploaded Apr 15, 2024. Captured May 26, 2023 20:19 in JGG2+WX Rutland Charter Township, MI, USA.
  • NIKON D850
  • f/5.6
  • 1/200s
  • ISO64
  • 105mm