#wasplove — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wasplove, aggregated by home.social.
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Another laptop visitor, this time, a parasitoid wasp, perhaps of the kind that parasitises the hundreds of ladybugs out and about at the moment. Likely in the Eucoilinae family.
Update: not a parasitoid wasp but an oak gall wasp, tribe Cynipini. Thanks to Luis Nastasi for the identification at the tribe level.
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Another laptop visitor, this time, a parasitoid wasp, perhaps of the kind that parasitises the hundreds of ladybugs out and about at the moment. Likely in the Eucoilinae family.
Update: not a parasitoid wasp but an oak gall wasp, tribe Cynipini. Thanks to Luis Nastasi for the identification at the tribe level.
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A gallery of social wasps.
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A gallery of social wasps.
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I haven’t posted here for a while so here is an invasive and #AsianHornet (Vespa velutina) that recorded in France this summer. This one was in the Pays de la Loire.
Yellow leg tips, dark head+thorax, thin yellow band on abdomen, yellow/orange 4th segment on abdomen.
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Quite pleased with this shot of an Urosigalphus braconid wasp I got in central Austin today. I suspect the wasps are emerging from live oak acorns, having parasitized the grubs acorn weevils.
Not many live photos exist of this genus, it seems.
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Quite pleased with this shot of an Urosigalphus braconid wasp I got in central Austin today. I suspect the wasps are emerging from live oak acorns, having parasitized the grubs acorn weevils.
Not many live photos exist of this genus, it seems.
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Malcolm Storey created and maintains https://www.bioimages.org.uk , a huge catalogue of high-resolution images of most animals that can be found in the British Isles, except for birds and other vertebrates.
Offers one of the most comprehensive catalogue of #Ichneumonidae images with special emphasis on macro photography to illustrate species-diagnostic features.
Malcolm has been identifying thousands of parasitoid wasps at #iNaturalist – that's how I found out. Thanks so much for all your work.
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Malcolm Storey created and maintains https://www.bioimages.org.uk , a huge catalogue of high-resolution images of most animals that can be found in the British Isles, except for birds and other vertebrates.
Offers one of the most comprehensive catalogue of #Ichneumonidae images with special emphasis on macro photography to illustrate species-diagnostic features.
Malcolm has been identifying thousands of parasitoid wasps at #iNaturalist – that's how I found out. Thanks so much for all your work.
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Tiny wasp walking on a spider's silky thread. Because why not? Not sticky at all.
Pteromalidae family.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/313864634
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Tiny wasp walking on a spider's silky thread. Because why not? Not sticky at all.
Pteromalidae family.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/313864634
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A nest of Syneoca cyanea warrior wasps in Paraná, Brazil. Two things I love. Wasps. And Brazil.
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A nest of Syneoca cyanea warrior wasps in Paraná, Brazil. Two things I love. Wasps. And Brazil.
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Finally, on the trail, a fearsome, very large wasp, a Delta unguiculatum, busy stabbing and carrying a pillbug – presumably to stash away as food for its young.
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Finally, on the trail, a fearsome, very large wasp, a Delta unguiculatum, busy stabbing and carrying a pillbug – presumably to stash away as food for its young.
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And a rare one: a velvet ant, male, genus Dasylabris, also grooming – thankfully, otherwise, I'd never be able to snap photos of these most gorgeous wasps.
Males are harmless; their mission in life is to find a female, which are wingless, pick it up and mate in a nuptial flight, and gently carry it to an auspicious location where it will find many a prey to catch and stash away, paralized, to feed their young in an underground burrow.
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And a rare one: a velvet ant, male, genus Dasylabris, also grooming – thankfully, otherwise, I'd never be able to snap photos of these most gorgeous wasps.
Males are harmless; their mission in life is to find a female, which are wingless, pick it up and mate in a nuptial flight, and gently carry it to an auspicious location where it will find many a prey to catch and stash away, paralized, to feed their young in an underground burrow.
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Not far off, another formidable predator: a beewolf, Philanthus triangulum, grooming its wings:
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Not far off, another formidable predator: a beewolf, Philanthus triangulum, grooming its wings:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309786456 -
... and a spectacular wasp, genus Meria, stretching about its very slender forms on the very same fennel flowers:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309786250 -
... and a spectacular wasp, genus Meria, stretching about its very slender forms on the very same fennel flowers:
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Lining the path there were many fennel plants in flower. Their little cute bright yellow cups are a favorite of many bees, wasps and flies. Here, a weevil wasp, Cerceris, sipping nectar:
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Lining the path there were many fennel plants in flower. Their little cute bright yellow cups are a favorite of many bees, wasps and flies. Here, a weevil wasp, Cerceris, sipping nectar:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/309785511 -
Two wasps living the here and now. When the rains come and the snail becomes mobile again, they’ll figure it out somehow? Like building a house by the ocean beach and expecting it to last…
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/307947512
#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #wasplove #entomology -
Two wasps living the here and now. When the rains come and the snail becomes mobile again, they’ll figure it out somehow? Like building a house by the ocean beach and expecting it to last…
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/307947512
#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #wasplove #entomology -
Megastigmus pistaciae, a chalcid wasp. Small, kind of transparent, and with quite the ovipositor.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/307723736Pleasantly surprised at how well iNaturalist’s ID autosuggestion worked, to the genus, followed by a swift species ID refinement by a curator, despite there being only 19 observations total now.
#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #wasplove #entomology -
Megastigmus pistaciae, a chalcid wasp. Small, kind of transparent, and with quite the ovipositor.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/307723736Pleasantly surprised at how well iNaturalist’s ID autosuggestion worked, to the genus, followed by a swift species ID refinement by a curator, despite there being only 19 observations total now.
#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #wasplove #entomology -
Mystery wasp. Possibly a crabronid, but frankly that’s a guess. Quite small, walking on dry needle leaves of white pine by the sea shore. And clasping its wings a bit like a spider wasp.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/307497482
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Mystery wasp. Possibly a crabronid, but frankly that’s a guess. Quite small, walking on dry needle leaves of white pine by the sea shore. And clasping its wings a bit like a spider wasp.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/307497482
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Who could have said that a wasp grooming its face could be this pretty. A paper wasp, posing for the camera:
https://youtu.be/3vcCX9g1jqE -
Who could have said that a wasp grooming its face could be this pretty. A paper wasp, posing for the camera:
https://youtu.be/3vcCX9g1jqE -
A wasp closing up its underground nest with stones, sand and debris: European golden digger wasp (Sphex funerarius) at work.
https://youtu.be/8EyyBHD6BlM -
A wasp closing up its underground nest with stones, sand and debris: European golden digger wasp (Sphex funerarius) at work.
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"Initially inspired by biomimicking an ovipositing wasp, the EDEN2020 system has been designed to have wide applications across minimally invasive neurosurgery including drug delivery, laser ablation, taking diagnostic readings of brain signals, and delivery of electrical stimulation."
"Here we present the first 3D animation of how it works and foreseeable applications."
A joystick-driven flexible catheter that can penetrate tissue gently, curving around blood vessels to deliver with precision drugs, electrical stimulation, or laser ablation. All inspired by a parasitoid wasp ovipositor.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/231075/eden2020s-story-film/
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"Initially inspired by biomimicking an ovipositing wasp, the EDEN2020 system has been designed to have wide applications across minimally invasive neurosurgery including drug delivery, laser ablation, taking diagnostic readings of brain signals, and delivery of electrical stimulation."
"Here we present the first 3D animation of how it works and foreseeable applications."
A joystick-driven flexible catheter that can penetrate tissue gently, curving around blood vessels to deliver with precision drugs, electrical stimulation, or laser ablation. All inspired by a parasitoid wasp ovipositor.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/231075/eden2020s-story-film/
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Pleased to see entomology-driven research at work:
"Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, a professor in medical robotics at Imperial College London recently completed a 15-year Horizon-backed research project creating a cranial catheter inspired by a conversation he had with the renowned zoologist Julian Vincent about wasps’ ability to penetrate hard tree bark to lay eggs."
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Pleased to see entomology-driven research at work:
"Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, a professor in medical robotics at Imperial College London recently completed a 15-year Horizon-backed research project creating a cranial catheter inspired by a conversation he had with the renowned zoologist Julian Vincent about wasps’ ability to penetrate hard tree bark to lay eggs."
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I també algunes vespes, entre elles, aquest "llop d'abelles" ("beewolf"), Philanthus triangulum. Literalment un depredador, es dedica a caçar abelles.
I quelcom que celebro: aquesta fou la meva entrada número 10,000 a la xarxa d'iNaturalist!
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I també algunes vespes, entre elles, aquest "llop d'abelles" ("beewolf"), Philanthus triangulum. Literalment un depredador, es dedica a caçar abelles.
I quelcom que celebro: aquesta fou la meva entrada número 10,000 a la xarxa d'iNaturalist!
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European beewolf, Philanthus triangulum – spotted today grooming on a perch, together with @jni meters aware from the sea shore https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301295377
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European beewolf, Philanthus triangulum – spotted today grooming on a perch, together with @jni meters aware from the sea shore https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301295377
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I never worked up this 2016 photo from the Peruvian Amazon because I was running into trouble identifying the wasp, in spite of its distinct markings.
But taxonomic resources are more accessible a decade on, and I'm happy to announce that she's the rarely photographed Polistes torresae.
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I never worked up this 2016 photo from the Peruvian Amazon because I was running into trouble identifying the wasp, in spite of its distinct markings.
But taxonomic resources are more accessible a decade on, and I'm happy to announce that she's the rarely photographed Polistes torresae.
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A female tarantula hawk wasp takes nectar from a horsetail milkweed at the Southwestern Research Station in Arizona.
I should do more of these dreamy natural light shots. This one was with a 200m lens on a 2x teleextender.
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A female tarantula hawk wasp takes nectar from a horsetail milkweed at the Southwestern Research Station in Arizona.
I should do more of these dreamy natural light shots. This one was with a 200m lens on a 2x teleextender.
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@theseliminaldays
Peppermint oil.
(Weirdly, this is is also hated by rats.)
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First chalcid wasp of the season, in Cambridge, UK. Suddenly landed on my hand while sitting outside.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266122834
#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #wasplove #entomology -
First chalcid wasp of the season, in Cambridge, UK. Suddenly landed on my hand while sitting outside.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/266122834
#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #wasplove #entomology -
And here the craddle of a gall wasp: a wasp that knows how to genetically and hormonally manipulate a plant to make a nurturing house for its offspring.
The #scifi book “A door into ocean” by Joan Slonczweski with its plant-based healing nurseries didn’t need to look beyond the marvels that wasps are for inspiration.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/264503436
#iNaturalist #wasplove #Hymenopters #wasps #entomology #GallWasps
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And here the craddle of a gall wasp: a wasp that knows how to genetically and hormonally manipulate a plant to make a nurturing house for its offspring.
The #scifi book “A door into ocean” by Joan Slonczweski with its plant-based healing nurseries didn’t need to look beyond the marvels that wasps are for inspiration.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/264503436
#iNaturalist #wasplove #Hymenopters #wasps #entomology #GallWasps
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Mystery #Crabronidae wasp continues to be a mystery. Rather distinctive red-black colloration; one of a kind, had never seen this species at this location.
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@alexwild That's a lot of Chrysis!
My favourite Chrysididae is the Emerald Cuckoo wasp, Stilbum cyanurum. Always get a kick out of seeing it again, most often on mint flowers.
https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/albertcardona?view=tree&details_view=observations&taxon_id=361691