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bowelfly · 3 months

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i'm thinking about bugs

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ljsbugblog · 15 days

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just for fun, a compilation of every wasp species I've seen drink from the pond so far.

Spider Wasp, genus Fabriogenia.

Potter Wasp, subfamily Eumeninae.

Potter Wasp, genus Paralastor.

Square-headed Wasp, subfamily Crabroninae.

Vase-cell Mud-dauber Wasp, Sceliphron formosum.

Square-headed Wasp, genus Pison.

Australian Paper Wasp, Polistes humilis.

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addicted2wasps · 3 months

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Drawing of the day: Megarhyssa greenei. Bonus mini collage of my favourite non-cartoon wasp drawings. I plan on adding more as I go along. For now, this is only a sample. Drawing wasps is keeping me sane during these dark times. Which one is your favourite?

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jupiterswasphouse · 10 months

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[VIDEO AND PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 9TH AND JUNE 8TH, 2023, RESPECTIVELY | Video and Image IDs: A video and five photos of orange, yellow, and black great golden digger wasps digging nests in dirt. In the video, the wasp is in the middle of digging before it notices a piece of glass and attempts to carry it away from the dig site, seeming satisfied with where it ends up putting it, proceeding to go back to move more things around /End IDs.]

This is the thing I've been looking forward to posting the most this month!! This wasp simply does not like the presence of the glass it seems- Honestly I think great golden digger wasps are some of my favorites just from a visual standpoint :]

#Wasps #Wasp #Great Golden Digger Wasp #Sphecidae #hymenoptera #insects #insect #bug #bugs #bugblr #entomology #arthropods #invertebrate #photos #photo #Video #Wasp House Sights

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onenicebugperday · 1 month

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@skptrace submitted: hi there! these are the clearest pictures i got but i'm super curious about this guy. if they're too far away, no worries; thank you for your efforts! villavicencio natural reserve in argentina

Hello :) Looks like one of the thread-waisted wasps in the family Sphecidae, but I can't get more specific than that without clearer photos.

#animals #insects #bugs #submission #wasp #sphecidae #thread waisted wasp

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bugkeeping · 2 years

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Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp (Sceliphron caementarium)

collecting a ball of clay to build her house

#wasp #Sphecidae #hymenoptera

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drhoz · 4 months

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#2037 - Sceliphron formosum - Vase-cell Mud Dauber

The genus Sceliphron occurs world-wide but only two species are generally recognized as native to Australia (although a single specimen from Parkerville in the Darling Range here in Perth might be a third species).

S. laetum I've already discussed - this is S. formosum. The Vase-cell Mud Dauber was originally confined to northern and eastern Australia but is now known to inhabit an increasingly wide area around Perth.

The North American S. caementarium is also found in Australia, after spreading across the Pacific. It's well-established in eastern Australia but has not yet reached Western Australia as far as I know.

S. formosum can be distinguished from laetum by its markings and by the construction of the nest - individual cells with a flat cap at one end, when complete, that are left uncovered by additional mud.

Pity I didn't spot that dead weevil when I took this photo at Coopers Mill on Cooleenup Island.

Sceliphron nests can be quite similar to some built by the Potter Wasps (Vespidae, subfamily Eumeninae), but the cocoons are quite different - papery dark-brown elongate ovoids, compared to the colourless pupa of vespids that are moulded to the inner walls of the cell.

#sceliphron #sphecidae #mud dauber #australian moth #cooleenup island

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bugsoupforthesoul · 2 years

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Some drama in the mint today…

#insects #wasps #nature #wildlife #entomology #Isodontia mexicana #mexican grass carrying wasp #Polistes fuscatus #dark paper wasp #sphecidae #vespidae #hymenoptera #north american species #my photos

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alcnfr · 9 months

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A few looks at (Eremnophila aureonotata)- The Gold-marked Thread-waisted Wasp, on the spearmint...

#nature #my photography #insects #wasps #thread waisted wasp #backyard nature #nature photography #wildlife photography #Sphecidae

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razehider · 9 months

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random assortment of recent-ish bug finds that i thought didn't warrant a whole post but still deserved to be seen. apologies in advance for the washed out colors and blurring in some of these because my phone's camera is comically bad

megachilid (?) (do not ever ask me to ID a bee i will self-combust) bee that was possibly dead or dying. no clue what went on here but it didn't respond to any movement and i'm pretty sure i could've straight up reached out and touched it. neat set of chompers on it, though

little Lixus sp. weevil, probably L. pulverulentus. eternally bummed out i didn't have a better camera for this one. still, i'm glad i managed to prevail against its lack of self-preservation and get it onto a leaf to get a better look at its shoes

some sort of sphecid wasp (lord help me i've got to get better with hymenopterans). annoyingly hard to get a picture of with a phone camera with the world's worst shutter speed but it sort of worked out. absurdly cute face on this thing

very large Ergates faber lady. i actually did consider making a whole post just for her because, as you might know if you've ever lived in western europe, seeing a single animal bigger than a thumb is practically a miraculous event. she was very insistent on poking around this wooden beam with her ovipositor as seen in the pic on the right, which is bizarre considering the dozens of actual trees and rotting stumps surrounding her that i assume her children would like better

#my pics #insects #bugs #entomology #bees #beetles #wasps #weevils #hymenoptera #coleoptera #curculionidae #sphecidae #cerambycidae

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bowelfly · 3 months

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can i interest you in some bugs

#bflyart #bug doodles #sphingidae #membracidae #vespidae #sesiidae #gompidae #scarabaeidae #mantispidae #sphecidae

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ljsbugblog · 8 days

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this Mud-dauber Wasp chose our windowsil to build her nest! after a bit of investigation of me and my camera, she graciously allowed me to photograph her while she worked on her construction.

in the photos above, she has arrived with a ball of mud collected from somewhere nearby. this nest isn't for her to live in, but for her young to grow and pupate. in this mass of mud she will craft several individual cells, and provision them all with the paralysed bodies of orb-weaver spiders. each cell will have a single egg laid on the first spider, before being sealed off with more mud.

here, she picks the next spot to deposit her ball of mud, using her mandibles to smooth it onto the structure. when the larvae hatch, they will consume all the spiders in their respective cells, before pupating and then emerging as adults wasps.

each time she finished with a layer of mud, she would take a moment to groom her forelegs and antennae, before flying off to repeat the process. these photos were taken earlier in the Summer, and as of posting this, the adult wasps have yet to emerge.

Covered-cell Mud-dauber Wasp, female (Sceliphron laetum).

#ljsbugblog #bugblr #entomology #macro #insects #hymenoptera #aculeata #wasps #sphecidae #thread-waisted wasps #sceliphron #slender mud-dauber wasps #sceliphron laetum #covered-cell mud-dauber wasp

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addicted2wasps · 3 months

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What to do when anxious? Draw a male Sphex latreillei, of course! Probably my favourite Sphecid wasp. Native to Chile. Drawn with coloured pencils and white paint marker for the wing highlights. I'm off to sleep, goodnight!

#hymenoptera #entomology #insect #wasp #wasps #apocrita #aculeata #Sphecidae #Sphex #Sphexlatreillei #TraditionalArt #Illustration #Apoidea

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jupiterswasphouse · 2 months

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Saw you like great golden diggers and if I'm not mistaken I saw one shortly after moving to the PNW! She was one of the most beautiful bugs I've ever seen.

Ohhh how beautiful!! I hope that she enjoyed her meal ^^ thanks for sharing!

[Image IDs: Two photos of an orange, yellow, and black great golden digger wasp feeding from a green plant with bundles of white flowers with very prominent stamens, potentially apple mint or a similar plant /End IDs.]

#Wasp House Answers #Bugblr #Wasps #thread waisted wasp #sphecidae #hymenoptera #photos

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onenicebugperday · 8 months

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@rogueinkglitch submitted: Here I am again with more bugs from my family’s native plant garden here in Ohio!

Some butterflies caught in an intimate moment, a big ol’ bee, some beetles, and a wasp of some kind? I would love IDs for the beetles and wasp!

Looks like lots of nice friends are attracted to this garden! The beetles are wedge-shaped beetles, Macrosiagon limbata. The wasp is a thread-waisted wasp in the family Sphecidae, but I couldn't say which species. There are a few that look very similar.

#bugs #submission #animals #insects #bee #beetle #congregation #wedge shaped beetle #Ripiphoridae #wasp #butterfly #Pieris #garden white #Sphecidae #thread waisted wasp

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dolicho-vespula · 2 years

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finally saw a thread-waisted wasp! gold-marked thread-waisted wasp (Eremnophila aurenotata) taking a sippy.

bonus: one chilling with other bugs in the bg

#g postin #wasps #Hymenoptera #Sphecidae #thread-waisted wasp #gold-marked thread-waisted wasp #bugs #insects

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