On Friday I was making breakfast and I noticed there was a wasp that managed to get into my house and was buzzing around, much to my chagrin. I was able to swat it with my newspaper, but I merely stunned it, and I had a really hard time looking for where it landed. Lo and behold, it landed onto a spiders web near the floorboards. What resulted was the greatest 20 minutes of an insect fight to the death that I have ever witnessed in my young life. Stingers ablaze, the two battled until the victor was crowned. A thrust of the stinger from the wasp. The spider retreats. A rush onto the back of the wasp and a struggle. Another retreat. Repeat.

I lost interest after absolutely nothing happened for a period of time, but ultimately I checked in later and saw that the spider’s web was probably too much for the wasp to overcome and escape.

Photo notes: I miss having a 100mm macro.