the strange orchid-shaped wasp
It seems an incredible sweetness this colorful insect alights on flowers all smiles on sunny spring days. But what is it? A doll? An insect, a joke? It’ actually an Ophrys Apifera, an herbaceous plant of the Orchidaceae family, commonly called Vesparia. Its height varies from 15 to 55 cm and growing Euro-Mediterranean area between the Caucasus and the Atlantic….