#microfiction #wasps #hymenoptera

#microfiction #wasps #hymenoptera

“Its like how I’ve heard your kind describe the galls you get in your teeth—“
“you mean cavities!?”
“Just so! It is like how when examined by the tongue the cavity is said to seem large. And yet, in reality it is small.

That is how it is with mine ovipositor. I can see the cell walls, yes, the holy scriptures in the language of the enzymes… and I just reach in and? I make little correction. I make little change. That is how I make the gall.”

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