bee eating cicada. it's a sad thing to be a nymph underground so long, feeding on root nectar, waiting and growing, finally to emerge and break out of your dirt-crusted shell and directly stung and devoured by bee. others linger and sing songs, and some survive to burrow again, honeyfull and ready to sleep in the quiet earth.
| postscript. word bird girl r. informs me that indeed this is not a bee, duh, it is in truth a cicada killer wasp, who preys upon the magicicada. |
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