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#wasps

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed
My recent spree of #macrophotography continues - and I appear to have become a friend of the #wasps. One morning - a small, slender, black and orange wasp (possibly an Ichneumon of some kind?) was sat in the window of the front door - after taking photos, I duly released it into the outdoors. And later that day - a tiny, glittering Cuckoo wasp purposefully scampering over old stonework!

#Derbyshire, May 2025.

#insects #macro #naturePhotography #parasitoids
Long, slender wasp with a glossy black head and body, very long antennae and orange-thighed legs sat on the white-painted frame of a window, with bright, out-of-focus textured glass in the background.
Small wasp with a glittering blue-green head and body and orange-red abdomen on old stonework. (Slightly motion-blurred, I know. They're absolute gits to take photos of - tiny, and constantly, rapidly moving!)
#parasitoids
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Colin Purrington

I am so envious: Folks at the Ohio Bee Survey have a desktop X-ray machine for taking pics of developing bees and wasps inside stems. So I just want to mention to my followers that my birthday is coming up in July. #bees #wasps #insects #ohio #hymenoptera #biology #science #xray u.osu.edu/beesurvey/2022/01/11

u.osu.eduJan 11th – Interim Reports Sent, Andrena progress, and a new xray machine | Bee Survey
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Albert Cardona

“To identify a wasp with certainty it is thus always necessary to take a specimen, and it is the ecologist's abiding dilemma that if he catches an animal to identify it he can no longer watch it; if he leaves it so that he can watch its behaviour he cannot name it with certainty; and if he doesn't know what it is, he doesn't know what to look out for.”

From: “Solitary wasps”, by Peter Yeo and Sarah Corbet.

#iNaturalist has changed this lots, but not entirely for wasps: most it can only identify to the family level, or at best the genus.

#entomology#wasps#SolitaryWasps
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Takako 🐀

Another gardener was asking me about the wasps in/near their plot. They thought it was yellow jackets. Highly unlikely.

Yellow jackets are aggressive assholes, and you won’t be able to casually garden around them.

It’s probably paper wasps — shy, docile pollinators.

But these two wasps look very much alike. Except for the color of the antennae; yellow jackets have black ones, and paper wasps have orange ones and their face has more yellow.

A yellow jacket eating a dab of strawberry jam I put on the rock, so they won’t bother me while I eat my almond-butter and jelly sandwich. Taken on a cool autumn day at the summit of Blue Hill, Boston.
Paper wasp queen perched upside down on her nest in the upside down cup I’ve placed in my community garden plot. She has a mild face.
#wasps#CommunityGarden
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Colin Purrington

Really nice infographic of parasites of ground-nesting bees. #bees #soil #insects #parasites #entomology #hymenoptera #pollinators #beetles #flies #wasps instagram.com/p/DJKKYrmBUrS/?u

InstagramGround-Nesting Bee on Instagram: "Parasites of Ground-Nesting Bees Illustration by Amanda Konishi (@fruitnotanacorn), advised by Dr. Jordan Kueneman Supported by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability © Project Ground-Nesting Bees 2025 | CC BY-NC 4.0 Learn more at GNBee.org Find us on iNAT project : Ground Nesting Bees Watch clips at: https://www.youtube.com/@GroundNestingBees #bees #groundnestingbees #macrophotography #entomology #citizenscience"175 likes, 4 comments - projectgnbee on May 2, 2025: "Parasites of Ground-Nesting Bees Illustration by Amanda Konishi (@fruitnotanacorn), advised by Dr. Jordan Kueneman Supported by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability © Project Ground-Nesting Bees 2025 | CC BY-NC 4.0 Learn more at GNBee.org Find us on iNAT project : Ground Nesting Bees Watch clips at: https://www.youtube.com/@GroundNestingBees #bees #groundnestingbees #macrophotography #entomology #citizenscience".
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