Shingle stuffing
It was still too warm and writing-busy to do much more than trek around the yard, but that proved intriguing when I noticed a narrow-waisted wasp making trips into the lawn and flower beds and then returning to the cedar shingles to provision the spaces between the wood with long stems and leaves of dried grasses and a katydid or two. The "stuffer" was a member of the grass-carrying genus Isodontia, and what she was doing was crafting a nursery built of grasses that she would cram between the shingles and then fill with food for her eventual larvae. The zombified katydid was a long-term meal for her developing youngsters.
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