Wasp Voracious

Yesterday, while on a walk, I stumbled upon a thistle – a truly elegant sight with its white blossoms reaching up into the air like little snowflakes on a summer day. "The perfect photo opportunity," I thought, and pulled out my camera. But then I heard it: an excited, slightly frantic buzzing. The gluttonous wasp was on its way.

Like a tiny helicopter, it zoomed in, determined and with the focus of a wasp fighter jet. Its tiny wings buzzed like an old radio stuck on one station: "Food! Food! Food!" It was obvious she was on a mission – and this white thistle bloom was her target.

The wasp shot toward it, ready for the big moment, as if she were the star of a wasp action movie. Her gaze? Full of hunger and concentration, like she’d been preparing for this one bloom all day. I think she even licked her antennae in anticipation.

Click! Just in time, I captured the perfect shot: the wasp, in her final approach, moments before claiming the white blossom. It was like I had caught the insect equivalent of a jet landing on an aircraft carrier – only here, the aircraft carrier was a very chic thistle, its flower heads gently swaying in the breeze.

When she finally landed, she practically buried herself in the white petals, as if she had just discovered the golden ticket to a sugary treasure trove. The bloom itself looked a little bewildered but otherwise stood tall and proud. Perhaps it had seen such greedy visitors before.

And me? I smiled as I packed up my camera. It had been a perfect day – with a wasp a bit too hungry for her size and a white thistle that had unwittingly become the stage for her. A culinary drama in the middle of nature, captured for eternity!