#hymenoptera — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hymenoptera, aggregated by home.social.
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Found my favorite bee, the tiny and aptly named Nomioides minutissimus. Here foraging on mint flowers.
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Found my favorite bee, the tiny and aptly named Nomioides minutissimus. Here foraging on mint flowers.
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Found my favorite bee, the tiny and aptly named Nomioides minutissimus. Here foraging on mint flowers.
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Found my favorite bee, the tiny and aptly named Nomioides minutissimus. Here foraging on mint flowers.
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Found my favorite bee, the tiny and aptly named Nomioides minutissimus. Here foraging on mint flowers.
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How to handle yellowjacket nests in garden beds https://www.allforgardening.com/1922178/how-to-handle-yellowjacket-nests-in-garden-beds/ #agricultural #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalProduct #AnimalProtection #apocrita #BeeColony #BeeHouse #beekeeping #bees #black #breeding #BreedingGround #BreedingSeason #Builds #BunchOf #caring #Colony #Cultivate #Cultivation #cutout #deserted #ecofriendly #EnvironmentProtection #exemptable #ExteriorView #garden #gardening #group #Hobby #honeycomb #hymenoptera #Many #ManyAnimals #nest #NestBuilding #NestingAid #NestingSite
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How to handle yellowjacket nests in garden beds https://www.allforgardening.com/1922178/how-to-handle-yellowjacket-nests-in-garden-beds/ #agricultural #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalProduct #AnimalProtection #apocrita #BeeColony #BeeHouse #beekeeping #bees #black #breeding #BreedingGround #BreedingSeason #Builds #BunchOf #caring #Colony #Cultivate #Cultivation #cutout #deserted #ecofriendly #EnvironmentProtection #exemptable #ExteriorView #garden #gardening #group #Hobby #honeycomb #hymenoptera #Many #ManyAnimals #nest #NestBuilding #NestingAid #NestingSite
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Small (~1.25mm) wasp that I've been finding in large numbers on yarrow growing in my yard. I'll probably never be sure, but my guess is that it's Aprostocetus anodaphus (Eulophidae), an endoparasite of Ozirhincus millefolii (Cecidomyiidae), which I've found on the same inflorescences in equally large numbers. As far as I know it has never been reported in North America. Please go out and check for them if you have yarrow and a macro lens. #wasps #hymenoptera #yarrow #achillea #flies #parasite #nature #insects #macrophotography
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Small (~1.25mm) wasp that I've been finding in large numbers on yarrow growing in my yard. I'll probably never be sure, but my guess is that it's Aprostocetus anodaphus (Eulophidae), an endoparasite of Ozirhincus millefolii (Cecidomyiidae), which I've found on the same inflorescences in equally large numbers. As far as I know it has never been reported in North America. Please go out and check for them if you have yarrow and a macro lens. #wasps #hymenoptera #yarrow #achillea #flies #parasite #nature #insects #macrophotography
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Small (~1.25mm) wasp that I've been finding in large numbers on yarrow growing in my yard. I'll probably never be sure, but my guess is that it's Aprostocetus anodaphus (Eulophidae), an endoparasite of Ozirhincus millefolii (Cecidomyiidae), which I've found on the same inflorescences in equally large numbers. As far as I know it has never been reported in North America. Please go out and check for them if you have yarrow and a macro lens. #wasps #hymenoptera #yarrow #achillea #flies #parasite #nature #insects #macrophotography
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Small (~1.25mm) wasp that I've been finding in large numbers on yarrow growing in my yard. I'll probably never be sure, but my guess is that it's Aprostocetus anodaphus (Eulophidae), an endoparasite of Ozirhincus millefolii (Cecidomyiidae), which I've found on the same inflorescences in equally large numbers. As far as I know it has never been reported in North America. Please go out and check for them if you have yarrow and a macro lens. #wasps #hymenoptera #yarrow #achillea #flies #parasite #nature #insects #macrophotography
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Macro pics coming soon. I love tiny wasps. #wasps #eulophidae #hymenoptera
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Macro pics coming soon. I love tiny wasps. #wasps #eulophidae #hymenoptera
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Macro pics coming soon. I love tiny wasps. #wasps #eulophidae #hymenoptera
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Macro pics coming soon. I love tiny wasps. #wasps #eulophidae #hymenoptera
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In case anyone needs to know, if you jostle an inflorescence of yarrow over a piece of white paper, very small (1 mm) wasps fall out. Most tend to hop around instead of flying away. Extremely hard to photograph, disappearing and reappearing like miniature Nightcrawlers from the X-Men universe. Am going to chill some plants to slow them down, so stay tuned if you're interested. You're interested, right?? #wasps #yarrow #achillea #insects #hymenoptera
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In case anyone needs to know, if you jostle an inflorescence of yarrow over a piece of white paper, very small (1 mm) wasps fall out. Most tend to hop around instead of flying away. Extremely hard to photograph, disappearing and reappearing like miniature Nightcrawlers from the X-Men universe. Am going to chill some plants to slow them down, so stay tuned if you're interested. You're interested, right?? #wasps #yarrow #achillea #insects #hymenoptera
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In case anyone needs to know, if you jostle an inflorescence of yarrow over a piece of white paper, very small (1 mm) wasps fall out. Most tend to hop around instead of flying away. Extremely hard to photograph, disappearing and reappearing like miniature Nightcrawlers from the X-Men universe. Am going to chill some plants to slow them down, so stay tuned if you're interested. You're interested, right?? #wasps #yarrow #achillea #insects #hymenoptera
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In case anyone needs to know, if you jostle an inflorescence of yarrow over a piece of white paper, very small (1 mm) wasps fall out. Most tend to hop around instead of flying away. Extremely hard to photograph, disappearing and reappearing like miniature Nightcrawlers from the X-Men universe. Am going to chill some plants to slow them down, so stay tuned if you're interested. You're interested, right?? #wasps #yarrow #achillea #insects #hymenoptera
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`A new species, Chlorocytus papahemii sp. nov. (Pteromalidae), a hyperparasitoid of E. curculionum, is described from China. Illustrations and a detailed morphological description of the new species, as well as a redescription of the types of related Chlorocytus species, are provided. ` http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1279.188643
#hymenoptera #wasp #insecta #arthropoda #arthropod #invertebrate #zoology #science #biology #taxonomy #phylogeny
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`A new species, Chlorocytus papahemii sp. nov. (Pteromalidae), a hyperparasitoid of E. curculionum, is described from China. Illustrations and a detailed morphological description of the new species, as well as a redescription of the types of related Chlorocytus species, are provided. ` http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1279.188643
#hymenoptera #wasp #insecta #arthropoda #arthropod #invertebrate #zoology #science #biology #taxonomy #phylogeny
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`A new species, Chlorocytus papahemii sp. nov. (Pteromalidae), a hyperparasitoid of E. curculionum, is described from China. Illustrations and a detailed morphological description of the new species, as well as a redescription of the types of related Chlorocytus species, are provided. ` http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1279.188643
#hymenoptera #wasp #insecta #arthropoda #arthropod #invertebrate #zoology #science #biology #taxonomy #phylogeny
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`A new species, Chlorocytus papahemii sp. nov. (Pteromalidae), a hyperparasitoid of E. curculionum, is described from China. Illustrations and a detailed morphological description of the new species, as well as a redescription of the types of related Chlorocytus species, are provided. ` http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1279.188643
#hymenoptera #wasp #insecta #arthropoda #arthropod #invertebrate #zoology #science #biology #taxonomy #phylogeny
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`A new species, Chlorocytus papahemii sp. nov. (Pteromalidae), a hyperparasitoid of E. curculionum, is described from China. Illustrations and a detailed morphological description of the new species, as well as a redescription of the types of related Chlorocytus species, are provided. ` http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1279.188643
#hymenoptera #wasp #insecta #arthropoda #arthropod #invertebrate #zoology #science #biology #taxonomy #phylogeny
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In my opinion the best bee butts belong to wool carder bees (_Anthidium_). They are just so round and cute and completely unmistakable.
Like other bees in the megachilid family, they collect pollen under their abdomens, not on their legs. They also scrape fuzz off the leaves of plants like lamb's ear (_Stachys byzantina_) for their nests, hence the name. They seem to like plants in the mint family in general.
(Inspired by @ater just posting about Megachilidae: https://flipping.rocks/@ater/116940807355074189)
#bugstodon #insects #bees #SolitaryBees #BeeButts #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Megachilidae
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In my opinion the best bee butts belong to wool carder bees (_Anthidium_). They are just so round and cute and completely unmistakable.
Like other bees in the megachilid family, they collect pollen under their abdomens, not on their legs. They also scrape fuzz off the leaves of plants like lamb's ear (_Stachys byzantina_) for their nests, hence the name. They seem to like plants in the mint family in general.
(Inspired by @ater just posting about Megachilidae: https://flipping.rocks/@ater/116940807355074189)
#bugstodon #insects #bees #SolitaryBees #BeeButts #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Megachilidae
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In my opinion the best bee butts belong to wool carder bees (_Anthidium_). They are just so round and cute and completely unmistakable.
Like other bees in the megachilid family, they collect pollen under their abdomens, not on their legs. They also scrape fuzz off the leaves of plants like lamb's ear (_Stachys byzantina_) for their nests, hence the name. They seem to like plants in the mint family in general.
(Inspired by @ater just posting about Megachilidae: https://flipping.rocks/@ater/116940807355074189)
#bugstodon #insects #bees #SolitaryBees #BeeButts #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Megachilidae
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In my opinion the best bee butts belong to wool carder bees (_Anthidium_). They are just so round and cute and completely unmistakable.
Like other bees in the megachilid family, they collect pollen under their abdomens, not on their legs. They also scrape fuzz off the leaves of plants like lamb's ear (_Stachys byzantina_) for their nests, hence the name. They seem to like plants in the mint family in general.
(Inspired by @ater just posting about Megachilidae: https://flipping.rocks/@ater/116940807355074189)
#bugstodon #insects #bees #SolitaryBees #BeeButts #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Megachilidae
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Could anyone help me identify this wasp please?! We’re in the French Alps at a lake at about 1100m (near Bourg-d’Oisans). About 20–30 mm long, with a very elongated thorax, thread-like waist, smoky wings, mostly black body with narrow yellow bands, and strongly hooked antennae (all individuals appeared to have them). They were remarkably agile, running over wet lakeside rocks. About 5 of them engaging in searching/foraging behaviour.
#Entomology
#Hymenoptera
#Wasps
#Insects
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Could anyone help me identify this wasp please?! We’re in the French Alps at a lake at about 1100m (near Bourg-d’Oisans). About 20–30 mm long, with a very elongated thorax, thread-like waist, smoky wings, mostly black body with narrow yellow bands, and strongly hooked antennae (all individuals appeared to have them). They were remarkably agile, running over wet lakeside rocks. About 5 of them engaging in searching/foraging behaviour.
#Entomology
#Hymenoptera
#Wasps
#Insects
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Could anyone help me identify this wasp please?! We’re in the French Alps at a lake at about 1100m (near Bourg-d’Oisans). About 20–30 mm long, with a very elongated thorax, thread-like waist, smoky wings, mostly black body with narrow yellow bands, and strongly hooked antennae (all individuals appeared to have them). They were remarkably agile, running over wet lakeside rocks. About 5 of them engaging in searching/foraging behaviour.
#Entomology
#Hymenoptera
#Wasps
#Insects
#IDRequest -
Could anyone help me identify this wasp please?! We’re in the French Alps at a lake at about 1100m (near Bourg-d’Oisans). About 20–30 mm long, with a very elongated thorax, thread-like waist, smoky wings, mostly black body with narrow yellow bands, and strongly hooked antennae (all individuals appeared to have them). They were remarkably agile, running over wet lakeside rocks. About 5 of them engaging in searching/foraging behaviour.
#Entomology
#Hymenoptera
#Wasps
#Insects
#IDRequest -
Could anyone help me identify this wasp please?! We’re in the French Alps at a lake at about 1100m (near Bourg-d’Oisans). About 20–30 mm long, with a very elongated thorax, thread-like waist, smoky wings, mostly black body with narrow yellow bands, and strongly hooked antennae (all individuals appeared to have them). They were remarkably agile, running over wet lakeside rocks. About 5 of them engaging in searching/foraging behaviour.
#Entomology
#Hymenoptera
#Wasps
#Insects
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At Spadina Quay yesterday, it was moving day for this colony of ants (_Crematogaster_?). Workers were carrying pupae up the wooden railroad-tie pillar. There were many alate pupae which were so large they required a whole team to move! Still, they were making steady progress. Various predators, like sphecid wasps and zebra jumping spiders, looked on with interest.
The waterfront was full of people, many soccer fans, tourists, or just regular people, out enjoying the summer weather, oblivious to the incredible activity happening just steps away.
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At Spadina Quay yesterday, it was moving day for this colony of ants (_Crematogaster_?). Workers were carrying pupae up the wooden railroad-tie pillar. There were many alate pupae which were so large they required a whole team to move! Still, they were making steady progress. Various predators, like sphecid wasps and zebra jumping spiders, looked on with interest.
The waterfront was full of people, many soccer fans, tourists, or just regular people, out enjoying the summer weather, oblivious to the incredible activity happening just steps away.
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At Spadina Quay yesterday, it was moving day for this colony of ants (_Crematogaster_?). Workers were carrying pupae up the wooden railroad-tie pillar. There were many alate pupae which were so large they required a whole team to move! Still, they were making steady progress. Various predators, like sphecid wasps and zebra jumping spiders, looked on with interest.
The waterfront was full of people, many soccer fans, tourists, or just regular people, out enjoying the summer weather, oblivious to the incredible activity happening just steps away.
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At Spadina Quay yesterday, it was moving day for this colony of ants (_Crematogaster_?). Workers were carrying pupae up the wooden railroad-tie pillar. There were many alate pupae which were so large they required a whole team to move! Still, they were making steady progress. Various predators, like sphecid wasps and zebra jumping spiders, looked on with interest.
The waterfront was full of people, many soccer fans, tourists, or just regular people, out enjoying the summer weather, oblivious to the incredible activity happening just steps away.
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So I don't think I mentioned this on here, but a couple weeks ago, walking to the grocery store, I was surprised to find a couple of *beautiful* metallic green sweat bees peeking out of burrows in a rather weedy, neglected, half-bare corner of yard, right by the sidewalk. Today I saw them again and was taking pictures when one of the residents was coming home. I was like, "Did you know you have BEES" and pointed them out to her, and she was very excited! She mentioned they make sure to leave leaf litter over the winter for better insect habitat. I went on my way and when I glanced back she was also stooping down to take pictures of them.
#bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Halictidae
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So I don't think I mentioned this on here, but a couple weeks ago, walking to the grocery store, I was surprised to find a couple of *beautiful* metallic green sweat bees peeking out of burrows in a rather weedy, neglected, half-bare corner of yard, right by the sidewalk. Today I saw them again and was taking pictures when one of the residents was coming home. I was like, "Did you know you have BEES" and pointed them out to her, and she was very excited! She mentioned they make sure to leave leaf litter over the winter for better insect habitat. I went on my way and when I glanced back she was also stooping down to take pictures of them.
#bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Halictidae
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So I don't think I mentioned this on here, but a couple weeks ago, walking to the grocery store, I was surprised to find a couple of *beautiful* metallic green sweat bees peeking out of burrows in a rather weedy, neglected, half-bare corner of yard, right by the sidewalk. Today I saw them again and was taking pictures when one of the residents was coming home. I was like, "Did you know you have BEES" and pointed them out to her, and she was very excited! She mentioned they make sure to leave leaf litter over the winter for better insect habitat. I went on my way and when I glanced back she was also stooping down to take pictures of them.
#bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Halictidae
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So I don't think I mentioned this on here, but a couple weeks ago, walking to the grocery store, I was surprised to find a couple of *beautiful* metallic green sweat bees peeking out of burrows in a rather weedy, neglected, half-bare corner of yard, right by the sidewalk. Today I saw them again and was taking pictures when one of the residents was coming home. I was like, "Did you know you have BEES" and pointed them out to her, and she was very excited! She mentioned they make sure to leave leaf litter over the winter for better insect habitat. I went on my way and when I glanced back she was also stooping down to take pictures of them.
#bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Halictidae
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What a photo. And love it when animals incidentally carry uniquely identifying markers, like this masked bee dragging about a dead ant, mandibles clamping its leg:
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What a photo. And love it when animals incidentally carry uniquely identifying markers, like this masked bee dragging about a dead ant, mandibles clamping its leg:
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What a photo. And love it when animals incidentally carry uniquely identifying markers, like this masked bee dragging about a dead ant, mandibles clamping its leg:
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What a photo. And love it when animals incidentally carry uniquely identifying markers, like this masked bee dragging about a dead ant, mandibles clamping its leg:
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What a photo. And love it when animals incidentally carry uniquely identifying markers, like this masked bee dragging about a dead ant, mandibles clamping its leg:
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Went for a walk at lunchtime & came across an assemblage of different wasps with a complex of burrows in a sandy path. I think the image on the left is a pair of Cerceris digger wasps with prey, about to enter the burrow to the right. The image on the right is a Hedychrum cuckoo wasp, a parasite of digger wasps. Photos not great so will have to return and catch some specimens for closer examination to identify further 🤓
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Went for a walk at lunchtime & came across an assemblage of different wasps with a complex of burrows in a sandy path. I think the image on the left is a pair of Cerceris digger wasps with prey, about to enter the burrow to the right. The image on the right is a Hedychrum cuckoo wasp, a parasite of digger wasps. Photos not great so will have to return and catch some specimens for closer examination to identify further 🤓
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Went for a walk at lunchtime & came across an assemblage of different wasps with a complex of burrows in a sandy path. I think the image on the left is a pair of Cerceris digger wasps with prey, about to enter the burrow to the right. The image on the right is a Hedychrum cuckoo wasp, a parasite of digger wasps. Photos not great so will have to return and catch some specimens for closer examination to identify further 🤓
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Went for a walk at lunchtime & came across an assemblage of different wasps with a complex of burrows in a sandy path. I think the image on the left is a pair of Cerceris digger wasps with prey, about to enter the burrow to the right. The image on the right is a Hedychrum cuckoo wasp, a parasite of digger wasps. Photos not great so will have to return and catch some specimens for closer examination to identify further 🤓
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Went for a walk at lunchtime & came across an assemblage of different wasps with a complex of burrows in a sandy path. I think the image on the left is a pair of Cerceris digger wasps with prey, about to enter the burrow to the right. The image on the right is a Hedychrum cuckoo wasp, a parasite of digger wasps. Photos not great so will have to return and catch some specimens for closer examination to identify further 🤓
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Last fall I stuffed several hundred eastern redbud seeds into pharmaceutical gel caps, then waited for parasitic wasps to emerge so that I could take photographs. #blog #wasps #insects #parasites #nature #redbud #beetles #hymenoptera #macro #macrophotography #entomology https://colinpurrington.com/2026/06/wasps-emerging-from-eastern-redbud-seeds/
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Last fall I stuffed several hundred eastern redbud seeds into pharmaceutical gel caps, then waited for parasitic wasps to emerge so that I could take photographs. #blog #wasps #insects #parasites #nature #redbud #beetles #hymenoptera #macro #macrophotography #entomology https://colinpurrington.com/2026/06/wasps-emerging-from-eastern-redbud-seeds/
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Last fall I stuffed several hundred eastern redbud seeds into pharmaceutical gel caps, then waited for parasitic wasps to emerge so that I could take photographs. #blog #wasps #insects #parasites #nature #redbud #beetles #hymenoptera #macro #macrophotography #entomology https://colinpurrington.com/2026/06/wasps-emerging-from-eastern-redbud-seeds/
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Last fall I stuffed several hundred eastern redbud seeds into pharmaceutical gel caps, then waited for parasitic wasps to emerge so that I could take photographs. #blog #wasps #insects #parasites #nature #redbud #beetles #hymenoptera #macro #macrophotography #entomology https://colinpurrington.com/2026/06/wasps-emerging-from-eastern-redbud-seeds/
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Last night went out for a good bug ramble except I realized I forgot my light, so I went home and made do with my phone flash along the way. (OpenCamera has a torch flash mode where the flash is always on.)
- _Leptinotarsa_ potato beetles mating
- a huge _Clubiona_ leaf-curling sac spider eating a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_)
- an ant war (_Tetramorium_?), this was only one of two large patches, with skirmishes up and down the sidewalk
- a *huge* sawfly larva? of some kind#ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #spiders #insects #beetles #ants #sawflies #Araneae #Clubionidae #Salticidae #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Symphyta