Cicada Killer Wasp

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    What a sight! I grew up being obsessed with bugs, reptiles, worms, etc. Pretty much everything that a mother says not to play with in the backyard, I became best friends with. I always had a "lizard hunting stick" with me as I wandered the land of Hardscrabble Way, never actually killing the lizards, however. I would simply catch them, keep them for the day, and then release them back into the wild. Again, we were best friends, so I would just see him the next day!

    Fast forward to today, when I came across this absolute beauty. This is a cicada killer wasp having lunch on, you guessed it, a cicada. A normal person would see this and immediately turn around screaming. Me, however, I stick around and chill with my best friend. These wasps do not sting humans ever because they know there is not real reason to. We are way too big to eat and if we threaten them, they just fly away. So, I felt completely safe around this guy. I just accompanied him while he dined on the (extremely undercooked) cicada. 

    This did make me think about animals from a new light. There are many animals around us that are actually harmless that people are afraid of. The simple garden snake would never hurt a fellow, but because it is a snake, people are terrified of it. I wonder what these animals would say if they could speak about this issue. Would they talk about how they enjoy the solitude that comes from the fear? Would they say that they wish people would stay and pet them? Would they be confused and ask us questions? What would their perspective be like?

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