*I was weeding the flowerbeds the other day. I took along my camera. Here’s a ‘square inch’ of God’s creation that I found.

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One day I spied … a creature
Exploring a rocky corner

Not one day 
Not two days 
But many days of exploring 
… Searching for what?

Searching the rocks for

A bite to eat?
A place to live?
A mate?
… All the while darting all around? How?

This creature has wings

Four wings
Amber wings
Four, big Amber wings
… What about the rest of it?

This creature’s body

Has three sections - head, thorax, abdomen
It’s two inches long, black, yellow, red
With one wicked looking stinger
… Anything else?

Only the female

Lays eggs
Digs the burrow
Has a stinger to paralyze prey
… Prey, what prey? Pray tell?

Ah, the prey! 

Here’s where we get the clue
It will help us name this very interesting insect
This large, flying wasp of a creature
In search of a 
… cicada …
To nourish newly hatched eggs

Its name? 

Cicada Killer

Doing what it was created to do
Today’s gift