#chalcidoidea

[addicted2wasps]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cla.12006

Galearia spp. are probably one the most ridiculous looking Eucharitid wasps I've ever seen. It is also a favourite. It looks like a weird spaceship or something. The first image is my drawing, the second image is a reference photo from the above provided link. Galearia (i) is pictured at the bottom left.

#hymenoptera #insect #entomology #wasp #wasps #apocrita #parasitica #Chalcidoidea #Eucharitidae #Galearia #TraditionalArt #Illustration

[creatureimages]

more ovipositor than wasp

zero clue who she is but she lives in a sandpaper fig fig that split open

#wasp #hymenoptera #apocrita #chalcidoidea #fig wasp #shes so shiny

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Submitter comment: "this is a personal favorite of mine. the moby dick reference is well-deserved for the task of reworking what was essentially a burning dumpster fire of a taxon"

#submission #entomology #chalcidoidea #pteromalidae #literally in the paper they mention that pteromalidae has basically been used as a dumping ground #for anything that didn't fit any of the other established chalcidoid families #so it was this massive polyphyletic mess #taxonomy

[collemblogging]

Chalcidoid wasp

#nature #animals #photography #arthropods #bugblr #science #invertebrates #macro photography #insecta #insects #hymenoptera #wasps #chalcidoid #chalcidoidea

[rattyexplores]

Chalcidoid Wasp

Unidentified, family Chalcidoidea

24/03/23 - NSW, Dapto

#invertebrates #invertblr #Arthropods #Arthropoda #bugs tw #insects #insect #insecta #insectblr #insects tw #bugs #bugblr #bug #entomology #Chalcidoidea #unidentified #Chalcidoid Wasps #Hymenoptera #wasps

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Just because bees and wasps can look alike, that doesn't mean they're friends. In fact, many types of wasps will gladly parasitise their black and yellow counterparts; for example, chalcid wasps will sneak into the nests of mason and leafcutter bees to lay up to 50 inside a developing bee larva, which then becomes food for the new hatchlings!

(Image: A female Brachymeria femorata by Bogdan Wiśniowski)

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#hymenoptera #Chalcidoidea #Chalcid wasps #wasps #hymenoptrids #insects #arthropods #uncharismatic facts

[bowelflies]

everyone knows about the stalk-eyed flies by now but did you hear about Axima, the genus of stalk-eyed wasps that dropped recently

source 1 2

#hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #eurytomidae #axima #parasitoids #entomology #i spent my whole lunch break today just looking up funny chalcidoid wasps

[wedontneedfeatherstofly]

Ogloblinisca americana

#wasp #chalcidoid #hymenoptera #Ogloblinisca americana #chalcidoidea

[partycardigann]

i’m taking this 2 week all day wasp id zoom course and it’s kicking my fucking ass jesus christ

#i hate chalcidoidea

[drhoz]

#1842 - Fam. Eulophidae

A minute wasp attracted to a light trap in Samson, Perth, Western Australia.

Most likely a parasite of Torymid gall-forming wasps, according to Andras Szito at the AgDept, who identified it for me and only managed to do so because he’d received a gall-infested eucalypt to ID the same day. 

As he said “Microhymenoptera is a separate world. Mr Boucek, the author of the Australian Chalcidoidea book, once stated; after 30 years of studying them you can say that you started to get to know them. Who has 30 years to study them? I remember, there are genera with well over one thousand species in them. Since most parasitic wasps are highly host specific, I am sure their species number well exceeds the beetle species number.”

Eulophids are tiny, and difficult to study, but most of the 4300+ species are parasitoids of other arthropods. At least one is a parasitoid of aquatic beetles. Many are host-specific, but Aprostocetus hagenowii which is used as a biocontrol of cockroaches in the US, also targets bark beetles and hatchet wasps - the latter themselves parasitoids of cockroach eggs. 

#eulophidae #parasitic wasp #perth #hyperparasite

[addicted2wasps]

If someone asked me what my favourite wasp was, I honestly wouldn't be able to answer because there are too many cool ones! It would be shameful to not draw a Cameronella, so here it is! This subject was way easier than the Eutrichosoma from before, it was actually therapeutic in comparison.

#hymenoptera #insect #entomology #wasp #wasps #apocrita #parasitica #Pteromalidae #Colotrechinae #Cameronella #TraditionalArt #Illustration #DartTailedWasp #Chalcidoidea

[elementalgod-aj]

Animal practice 37

Panarthropoda

Arthropoda 4

Hexapod 4

Hymenoptera 1

Emorossa (Ant/Bee/wasp/termite hybrid)

Symphyta

Buzza (sawfly)

Wild wasps

Crimson the abominable (wild wasp)

Orussoidea

Parasitoid wood wasp

Stephanoidea

Crowned wasp

Ichneumonoidea

Ichneumon wasp

Cynipoidea

Gall wasp

Chalcidoidea

Chalcid wasp

Chrysididae

Jeweled wasp

Mutillidae

Velvet ant

Pompiliidae

Spider wasp/Tarantula hawk

Scoliidae

Scoliid wasp

Ampulicidae

Cockroach wasp

Crabronidae

Cicada killer

Beewolf

#the watchful eye #watchful eye #my oc #my ocs #my art #elementalgod aj #aj the elementalgod #isle 0 #toonverse oc #o'kong family #neo demons #earthdemons #anthro allies #panarthropoda #arthropods #hexapods #insects #Hymenoptera #sawfly #wild wasps #spider wasp #velvet ant #cicada killers #beewolf #cockroach wasp #jeweled wasp #ichneumonid wasp #bees #ants #wasps

[entomoblog]

Les Hyménoptères. Morphologie et nomenclature

See on Scoop.it - Insect Archive

La tête porte les pièces buccales, les antennes, les yeux composés et dorsalement trois ocelles disposés en triangle. Les antennes sont formées d'un nombre d'articles variable selon les taxons et parfois selon les sexes d'une même espèce. Chez la plupart des Apoidea et des Vespoidea, les antennes des mâles ont 13 articles et celles des femelles 12. L'article le plus basal est appelé scape, le suivant pédicelle, les autres constituent le flagelle. Chez certains Chalcidoidea, les premiers articles du flagelle, étroits et annulaires, sont appelés anneli.

  Morphologie  et nomenclature des Hyménoptères

OPIE-Insectes

      Les Hyménoptères, Hymenoptera - Par Claire Villemant http://insectes.xyz/hymenos.htm

  [Image] Pièces buccales d'Apoidea

[gaetaniu]

Scoperta la più antica famiglia di vespe gioiello nell'ambra cretacea del Libano

Le vespe gioiello (Chalcidoidea) sono uno dei gruppi di insetti più diversi, con oltre 120.000 specie descritte e una diversità reale stimata in quasi 1 milione. I calcidi sono vespe parassitoidi che attaccano altri insetti su cui depongono le uova per nutrirsi e crescere all’interno dell’ospite. L’evoluzione e l’origine di questo immenso gruppo ha lasciato perplessi gli scienziati per decenni.…

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[bugsandnaturethings]

Tiny parasitoid wasps (: though they are very difficult to ID I think they are very fascinating

#bug #nature #wasp #chalcidoidea #hymenoptera #insect #entomology #mine

[rattyexplores]

✥ Stilbum cyanurum, “Large Cuckoo Wasp” - Chrysididae

From Brisbane insects - “Most species are external parasites of other wasp larvae. Females lay eggs in nest of other wasps (Eumeninae of Vespidae and  Sphecidae) while the nest host collect food for larvae. Cuckoo Wasp larvae hatch and feed on the food or the host larvae.”

30/08/20 - El Arish, QLD

#Stilbum cyanurum #large cuckoo wasp #Chrysididae #cuckoo wasps #parasite wasps #wasps #wasp #MEGALYRIDAE #EVANIOIDEA #ICHNEUMONOIDEA #CHALCIDOIDEA #CHRYSIDIDEA #hymenoptera #Apocrita #blue #Blue Aesthetic #bugs #bugblr #bugs tw #insect #insecta #insects tw #insectblr #insects #Entomology #arthropods #arthropoda