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Four (parasitic) #wasps (#Hymenoptera) from a SLAM #Malaise sample in #Canberra #Australia over the last three weeks. Natural areas everywhere are (or should be) full of beautiful #insects like these, all just going about their business.

A #FairyWasp in the genus #Mymar - the first I have seen here in the nominate genus - see how tiny this #insect is.

An #ichneumon wasp (#Ichneumonidae) in the subfamily #Campopleginae - probably possible to get this one to genus, but most Australian species are unnamed.

#Vosleria australia (or at least that's the only named Australian species in the genus) - family #Encyrtidae

#Anastatus, unknown species - family #Eupelmidae

#biodiversity #entomology

A tiny orange insect (body around 1 mm in length) with long legs, antennae and feather-like wings. The wings are very narrow and end in a black flag-like blotch.

Narrow-bodied wasp with a black head, thorax and base to the metasoma. The rest of the insect is a vivid orange. The antennae are long and black, curving backwards like oryx horns.

Small wasp, mainly black but with transparent bands across the forewings. The eyes are large and red. The antennae are almost as long as the body. The edges of the segments of the thorax are edged in orange-brown.

A long-bodied (and long-necked wasp), mainly blackish, but with a white band around the base of the metasoma. The mouthparts and the tarsi of the legs are yellow. The wings are dark with a whitish cross-band. The antennae are folded down in front of the face like crash-protectors.

#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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#wasps

"They transported 300 frozen parasitic wasps by plane to a remote island, where they reproduced, invaded an entire forest, killed invasive insects, saved rare trees, prevented the extinction of a unique bird, and changed the island's destiny.

An extreme scientific mission took microscopic, chilled wasps to a remote South Atlantic island where they reproduced, controlled a devastating infestation, saved native trees, prevented the disappearance of a unique bird, and reversed an imminent ecological collapse."

https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/They-took-300-frozen-parasitic-wasps-on-a-plane-to-a-remote-island-where-they-reproduced-and-invaded-mhbb01/

@Smithsonianmag @smartnews-343feuq8z-Smithsonianmag Felonious Thelytokous Parthenogenesis my old friend,
Step on in and let me shake your hand.

These wasps are new to North America. They're female only. They don't need no stinkin' batchelor matches.

They have a new continent to explore. They're only 1/4 inch long, but they're gonna be the next big thing.

#SteelyDan #Conquistadores #Entomology #Invasive #Wasps

#NewSpecies!
New parasitoid wasp from #uganda just flew in:

Encarsia agona

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F7812-CF5D-FFB1-3B10-FF797A357962
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2534164
#JournalOfNaturalHistory #EncarsiaAgona

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #hymenoptera #wasps #parasitoidwasps #parasite

Encarsia agona, holotype female, montage image of dissected specimen after DNA.

Look at this stout little friend! I saw one a couple of years ago on a different kind of flower and have been hunting for another ever since. Very small - maybe 4mm long? and such distinctive baskets, but I'm not having any luck forming a confident ID.

Edit: Looks like this one is a wee little native wasp, brachymeria podagrica by my best guess (thanks for the tip @xris !)

#photography #bees #wasps

A tiny bee landed on an unopened gum blossom, seen from the side as they waggle their antennae around and inspect their surroundings

That same tiny bee turned to face more toward the camera. Their pollen baskets are tall and narrow, appearing to stand perpendicular to the leg. The far leg's basket breaks past the silhouette, almost giving the impression of grasshopper-ish knees

@b_age Nice photo. Now wondering which parasitoid wasp ventures into that brush of deadly spikes, for surely there is at least one that does. I further wonder whether there's a database of parasitoid wasps with their known hosts?
#entomology #parasitoids #wasps

@FotoVorschlag #FotoVorschlag "Mein bestes Foto 2025"

Ich hatte letztes Jahr ein paar Fotos von Insekten gemacht, die ich mag. Dieses gehört dazu.

#photography #biodiversity #insekten #wasps #hornissen #naturgarten

Seerosenblätter in einem Teich. Auf einem sitzt eine Hornisse und trinkt. Ihr Kopf spiegelt sich im Wasser neben dem Seerosenblatt.

Results of leaving the yellowjacket nest in the compost bin are as follows:

#gardening #insects #wasps

An empty yellowjacket nest on a pile of compost. Some of the chambers are still plugged, never to birth a child.

Ichneumon wasp that followed me indoors this afternoon, then spent all its time trying to get back to the light through the window. Sharpest insect macro so far with a "new" old Lumix. Though not in the same game as ones like I just boosted, nice to have a record.

#Ichneumonidae #wasps #portugal #insects #macro

better resolution image than underside one: 30mm long wasp with ovipositor same length as all the rest of its body. dorsal view. you can see the tiny claws gripping the shiny surface of the polycarbonate widow surround.

same wasp clinging to the inside of a drinking glass, ventral underside photographed through the glass. palps are visible, and red-ish legs but much fluffier than the other image.

#FotoVorschlag - Kleine Wunder // Small wonder

Cuckoo wasp - a ruby-tailed wasp from the Chrysididae, looking for mason bees' nests to lay eggs in. Derbyshire, July 2021.

#wasps #insects #macrophotography

Small wasp - head and thorax deep blue with sparkling, intense pale blue and green speckles, abdomen a metallic orange-red - wings folded, eyes a faintly specular black - on an old, weathered sandstone wall with crevices draped in fragments of cobwebs.

New Ant Lab on #Dryinidae, utterly fascinating leafhopper-hunting parasitoid wasps with spring-loaded grabby legs: https://youtu.be/9osTBzQ0zbk

#bugstodon #insects #wasps #Hymenoptera #entomology

Dasyscolia ciliata on Sage-leaved Rock-Rose (Cistus salviifolius)

#Wasps #Hymenoptera #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #BloomScrolling #Insects #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Florespondence #Flowers #FlowersOfMastodon #Plant #Plants #Nature #NaturePhotography #PicOfTheDay #PictureOfTheDay #PhotoOfTheDay #Photo #Photography

A photo of two fuzzy wasps on a white flower.

Uma vespinha simpática fotografada aqui em casa (Bragança Paulista-SP)

Canon EOS 5D2 + MP-E 65mm + MT-24EX + difusor artesanal

#macrofotografia #macrophotography #fotografiamacro #insetosdobrasil #naturezabr #biodiversidade #nature #wildlife #closeup #macrobrasil #vespas #hymenoptera #wasp #wasps #macrocreatures #detalhesdanatureza #macro #fotografiabr #macroemcasa #TEA #fotografoautista #bragancapaulista #bragançapaulista

How To Keep #Wasps Away From #Hummingbird Feeders

https://www.outdoorrevival.com/garden/how-to-keep-wasps-away-from-hummingbird-feeders.html

Nature’s greatest method actors: the insects that cosplay bumblebees
#Science #Nature #Bees #Wildlife #Evolution #Mimicry #HoverFlies #Bumblebees #AnimalBehavior #Biology #Ecology #Insects #Research #DeceptionInNature #NaturalWorld #Animals #Wasps #Flies
https://the-14.com/natures-greatest-method-actors-the-insects-that-cosplay-bumblebees/

#NewSpecies!
New parasitoid wasp from #brazil just flew in:

Perilampus minasgerais

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E27E55-2E54-FFE9-FF0F-FF72FBFFF966
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5621.2.1
#Zootaxa #PerilampusMinasgerais

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #hymenoptera #wasps #parasitoidwasps #parasite

Perilampus carolinensis, female, habitus, lateral view.

#ThrowbackThursday Tule Elk Reserve CA, April 2023, 2 of 2

#photography #nature #NaturePhotography #panorama #mud #wasps

a section of the dried mud wall of a riverside, bathed in sunlight and spotted with dozens of holes (made by wasps perhaps?), resembling a pueblo, but very inhabited, a visible hub of activity

more dried mud wall of a riverside, more shrouded in shade but still spotted with several generations of holes (made by wasps is my best guess), resembling a pueblo, but with clear evidence of nature activity

a panoramic view from the top of one of the hills that help form the valley trail below; the location of the river is very clear from the surrounding trees lining its path through the otherwise flat grassy plains

one of my favorite views to play with: looking through an old hollowed-out tree stump to a visible patch of sunlight at the far end, in this case a messy patch of standing water, cluttered with cobwebs, twigs, and all manner of organic debris

Caribbean Paper Wasps. (Polistes crinitus)

#Wasps #PaperWasps #PolistesCrinitus #Closeup #NaturePhotography #Insect #InsectPhotography #CanonPhotography #PaulThomasPhotography #JamaicanPhotographer #Jamaica

SOLVED 👇
Hello #Fediverse!
Any #wasps expert here? We might have a queen hibernating in our bedroom, and would love some advice. I have disturbed her this evening, and she started buzzing around for some minutes. Went out, closed her inside, and by the time we returned with a cup to catch her she has disappeared and has gone completely silent. Windows and doors shut, so we believe she has probably crawled in some remote corner within the wardrobe. What should we do? Leave or find her?
#advice

#Wasps

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