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Foenatopus sp. (family Stephanidae), a freak wasp from Thailand. #iNaturalist #wasps #biodiversity #nature www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Visual guide to pests of mason bees. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #insects #osmia #wasps #mites #parasites https://extension.psu.edu/enemies-of-mason-bees
extension.psu.eduEnemies of Mason BeesMason bees are common in bee hotels and are used for commercial pollination services. Natural enemies can severely impact the survival rates of managed bees. Recognizing these enemies is the first step in mitigating their impact.
Normally I kill #wasps and destroy their nests on sight. This year, I was thinking of leaving them alone. I’ve had a few waking up from hibernation in my shed, and I’ve been acting going to them and saying hi (supposed they remember faces). With the warm weather today, they’ve doubled in number and I’m starting to think I should just kill them again. What do you think? #poll 
Huge compilation of tips for maintaining an insect hotel, by Elsa Youngsteadt and Meredith Favre. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #wasps #insects #pollinators #pollination https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/how-to-manage-a-successful-bee-hotel
content.ces.ncsu.eduHow to Manage a Successful Bee Hotel | NC State Extension PublicationsThis collection describes how to design and build a bee hotel to support native pollinator species.
Dasyscolia ciliata on Sage-leaved Rock-Rose (Cistus salviifolius)
Picture of my Grandma (left) and another female pilot testing bombers during WWII.
She was a part of the WASPS.
Had run away from the orphanage at age 14, decided to get her pilots license by 16 and joined the airforce.
#WASPs
I found this beautiful little lady exploring the nooks and crannies around my water butts. I think she’s a German yellowjacket wasp (Vespula Germanica), and maybe a queen as she’s quite large but I’m not sure. She was very docile, maybe quite newly emerged. But I use my water butts a lot in summer so I’ve relocated her to a less troublesome location near some trees that are surrounded by brambles so nobody can get near enough to disturb any potential nests.
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Here's the observation panel tucked into its bay. The protruding screw is so that I can easily pull it out to check on inhabitants. I check daily during the summer and sometimes can snag pics of interesting phases of wasp and bee nest-provisioning. E.g., the egg of a grass-carrying wasp deposited on a paralyzed tree cricket. You never get to see any of this action with a normal nesting tube. #bees #wasps
The observation panel on my insect hotel has been cleared of last year's occupants (grass-carry wasps), sterilized, and reassembled for a new season. Need to get myself a neon VACANCY sign. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #wasps #insects #pollinators
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@thegardendude The mountain mint is not aggressive here, here being southern Minnesota. The small bees and wasps visit the flower heads repeatedly for the new blooms. I recommend this native plant for the shiny insects. #nativeplants, #pollinators, #wasps.
As always, the tunnels in my insect hotel's observation panel got used by grass-carry wasps (genus Isodontia). They provision their nests with tree crickets. #InsectHotel #wasps #isodontia #insects
A thread of how I sort through my insect hotels in advance of the season. #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #bees #wasps #hymenoptera #insects #pollinators 1/n
Just baking the insect hotel, as one does, to kill any dermestid beetles, book lice, and mites that are hiding in the cracks after the bee and wasp cocoons have been removed. #BeeHotel #InsectHotel #bees #wasps #hymenoptera #insects #pollinators #entomology
#NewSpecies!
New cuckoo wasp from #india just cuckooed:
Chrysis cataka
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/133587CD-FF98-7374-FF6E-4E57FC42FC04
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681819
#LinzerBiologischeBeiträge #ChrysisCataka
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #hymenoptera #wasps #cockoo #cuckoowasps
A Potter Wasp, Phimenes flavopictus, spotted at Ulu Sembawang Park Connector, Singapore on 24 Nov 2024. A small, common wasp, belonging to a family of wasps that make nests out of mud that resemble small pots.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/254289624 ].
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Erm … I shall go with:
An epidemic of lawn-mowing channels on YouTube, where "tidying it up for the neighbours" means razing all natural wildlife to a maximum height of 1mm, resulting in all of the cult's over-Winter wasp queen hibernation habitats being destroyed and the wasp population plummeting to near-extinction levels.
Mind you, this is probably too close to what is happening with #wasps in reality to make good fiction. (-:
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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.
iNaturalistOak Marble Gall Wasp (Andricus kollari)Oak Marble Gall Wasp from Hedgerley Close, Cambridge, Anglaterra, GB on March 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM by Albert Cardona