#vespidae — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vespidae, aggregated by home.social.
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Toltec Potter Wasp, Parazumia tolteca. Texas.
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For all their reputation, I've never had a bad experience with bald-faced hornets (_Dolichovespula maculata_). When they are simply out getting food they seem pretty calm.
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Saw this extremely convincing wasp-mimicking hoverfly, _Spilomyia_ (https://bugguide.net/node/view/3288), on the goldenrod in the garden today! Then on the way to the store saw plenty of the "model", _Ancistrocerus_ wasps (https://bugguide.net/node/view/6812), also on goldenrod.
#bugstodon #insects #wasps #flies #mimicry #Hymenoptera #Vespidae #Eumeninae #Diptera #Syrphidae #Eristalinae
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And in rather less welcome back garden insect news, I'm pretty sure that this is an Asian hornet (Vespa velutina).
It's an invasive species that's thought to have arrived in France in boxes of pottery in 2004 & has been spreading through Europe since, killing & eating the native honeybee population along the way.
They're supposed to be reported & I've just done that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_hornet
#Vespidae 🐝
#Photography 📷
#ReturnToGermany 🇩🇪
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Also, honey wasps are really amazing looking animals. They're as if you gave yellow jackets a week to become honey bees, and they tried their best, bless their hearts.
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Seems like I have a new neighbor
#PotterWasp #insects #phonePhotography #urbanNature #pottery #wasp #vespidae
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Pretty sure this is a European hornet (Vespa crabro).
At this time of the year, it should be a queen, searching for food for the larvae.
I caught her, after being trapped in my room for a couple of minutes. She couldn't find a way out and always wanted to leave through the ceiling. When she sat down for a couple of seconds, I cautiously trapped her inside a glass.
Photo is not good, because I wanted to hurry up to release her outside.
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One of my favorite local insects is the Mexican honey wasp Brachygastra mellifica, a relative of hornets that makes and stores honey.
Earlier this week I took a new photo of a live nest, in cutaway, thanks to Jo-anne Holley's research lab here at UT.
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CW: Insects: A beautiful wasp
Great golden digger wasp (𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘹 𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘴) on a thistle, from July 2020.
This is one of my favorite insects. Not only are they gorgeous, they are peaceable if unprovoked and flit about on flowers like good ambassadors of waspdom.
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Stenodynerus blandus, I think. #Entomology #Photography #InsectPhotography #Hymenoptera #Wasp #Vespidae
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This is one of our common big mason wasps in the hot summer months, Euodynerus pratensis. These are related to paper wasps and hornets, but they are solitary, not social, and make small nests out of mud.
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Social wasps, a photo gallery:
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A Synoeca cyanea warrior wasp removes excess water from her colony's nest after a drenching tropical rain. Brazil.
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An eastern yellowjacket, Vespula maculifrons, drinks nectar from a milkweed. Texas.
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A Lesser Banded Hornet (Vespa affinis) spotted at Springleaf Nature Park, Singapore, on 15 Sept 2018. It appeared to be chewing or biting on the leaf while I was taking shots of it. Interesting behaviour.
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Wasps #Vespidae
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/16547898 ]
