[ID: Multiple digital bust drawings of Blue, Cricket, Sundew, Swordtail, Luna, and Wasp from Wings of Fire. Each bust is labeled with their name. Blue is cyan with a darker blue snout and horns, with pale green antennae. The larger antenna has an eye-like marking on it. Blue's cheek and neck are covered in thick white fur that bunches up close to his head. His eye is black with a reddish-orange ring as an iris. Cricket is a warm gold with a brown and orange neck. Along with her HiveWing stripes she has groups of spots along her neck, as well as a single one on her cheek that is meant to look like doll blush. She is looking forward with a wide smile. Above her eye is one long antenna. Her eye is black with a red ring. Sundew is a dark leaf green with a cream and yellow underbelly, and dark horns with a bright red stripe. The "spines" on the back of her neck look like leaves. She has a furrowed brow and a deep frown. Swordtail is a bright blue with an orange jaw and stripe over his eye. His snout and fluffy cheeks are a pale cream. He has a single antenna pointing backwards like his horn. His eye is black with a yellow ring. He has a bright smile on his face and a raised brow. Luna is a pale caterpillar green with a warm purple snout and horn each with a yellow stripe. Her antennae fade to a lighter color and have a stripe running down their center. She has similar fluff to her brother Blue but it's much more smooth. Her eye is black with a yellow ring. She looks ahead with determination. Wasp is gold, orange, and a dull purplish-blue with a black stripe running from under her eyes down her throat. The spines along her back are gold. She has multiple antenna: one above her eye, and two sticking out of her chin. She looks down with fury, her mouth wide open to show her teeth. Her eye is black with multiple green rings and a thin pupil. End ID]
@undeadrabbit submitted: Was eating lunch when this lil fella suddenly appeared. No idea why, but they chilled next to me for the whole time. (Location is [removed]; please remove location!)
Incredible creature. It's an ensign wasp! Probably a blue-eyed ensign wasp. They parasitize cockroach eggs :)
I seem to be on a roll tonight. Theronia maculosa is one of the most beautiful Pimplines in my opinion, and this one seems to know it. These Ichneumonid wasps are unsurprisingly native to Australia. Ice-blue colouration and stylish!
volunteers with honey bees and parasitoid wasp (18-1242 brown patina, 18-1658 pompeian red) by michael assiff, 2022, methacrylic + latex + acrylic + copper + steel on canvas, 22 × 20.1 × 3 inches
(I've been picking at some of my older personal art as warmups while I work on commissions, and I made a design decision for Miss B that her person face can peel open to a wasp face!
I like that it gives another element to pull her design away from being just Ambiguous Grub. At first I tried a realistic wasp face, but it was a lil too cute, so I brought in some elements of a skull, and decided to use her hair to imitate antennae! I'm really happy with this decision)
@shinyearthquakereview submitted: Found hundreds of these wasps having a mating flight in my front yard. I believe they are Scolia dubia. It was so cool seeing all of them zooming around right above the grass.
Look at them fluttering about! I hope they all successfully enticed a partner.
Okay but Donna repeatedly telling people about things theyre not supposed to know yet and them being like 'what the fuck are you talking about?' is one of my favourite things. She does not care for your sci-fi rules