European Paper Wasp on Tansy Ragwort
I'm feeling a bit frustrated. I'm much less interested in the taxonomic identification of the players in the game than I am in the ecological question of what is going on in the image. I'm feeling like the site should be named iTaxonimist instead of iNaturalist right now.
What I'm seeing is European Paper Wasp a known meat hunter running a convoy to a plant that is poisonous to it where the only other insect there is probably more poisonous than the plant it is feeding on. I have trouble believing the wasp is collecting the poisonous plant directly as building material and wonder if the moth larve is preprocessing the plant material producing a relatively poison free cellulose building material that is safe for use by the wasp. A Naturalists sort of question and don't even get a friendly "I don't Know" or a "That's interesting can you help gather more information? I need to see this..."
