Sawfly …
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A female I think. On a favourite eucalyptus tree, where other sawfly and larva have been found.
Don’t know about joyous, but there’s a certain pleasure in perception of the being of this creature.
She’s a beauty, isn’t she. Big blue eyes, short antennae and curved pointy mandibles. Sweet little thing …
A slight evolutionary refinement perhaps, on the one that has been before. Reproduction is not replication.
A successful sawfly is one that is, warts ‘n’ all. That’s life …
© Mark Berkery ……. Click on those pictures for a closer look
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