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[apocrital]

Bzzt

This is my sideblog for all things Hymenoptera, but mainly wasps, and sometimes other things also. Although I will not block anyone for doing so I would appreciate if people did not comment or tag directly on my reblogs with negativity about the animals in question, even if you feel it is light hearted

Main -> @mariapoda

General zoology sideblog -> @acarinarium

Tags

#Ocelli – showcase (photos, videos, whatever)

#Ommatidia – art

#Mushroom body – facts

#Bombilation – jokes

#Spheksophilia – miscellaneous

#Antennating – asks

#Gallforming – non-reblogs

#Waspn't Wednesday – other underappreciated animals and the like. On a Wednesday

Feel free to tag me in posts and send asks! About anything!

[justlajuntaco]

[wasp-with-a-computer]

Tiny wasp ✨grooms✨ its antennae

[eupholus]

yellowjacket tips: for accurate landings aim for a sister

[omni-co]

To the wasp who decided they were cool enough with me to chill on my arm while I was on my porch

Thank you

I love you

You're perfect and you always will be

You added so much to my vibes at the moment

I adore you

[zipplebacked]

wasps from today

[razehider]

despite the lack of the classic stem-chomping pose associated with sleeping wasps, this Prionyx was clearly not fully awake or at least winding down, and only moved whenever i bothered it too much. my main intention was to show off its face and waist, but you can still see its oversized hind legs that almost resemble the grasshoppers its mom once fed it as a baby

i also got whatever this ridiculous shot is supposed to be so you can appreciate the aforementioned chompers

(August 29th, 2025)

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is the horse guard wasp (Stictia carolina)!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Wasps can be a horse's best friend! These sand wasps prey on biting horseflies and can efficiently take out whole swaths of them!

Interestingly enough, horses seem to have some awareness that these wasps are on their side as they'll neither swat at them or react to the sound of their loud buzzing as they would do with the similar sounding horse flies.

[waspdaily]

[halfwandering]

Bald-faced hornet’s nest forming outside one of my windows on the electrical meter. Unfortunately we had to move the nest. This tiny thing can grow into a colony of hundreds and we walk by this pole multiple times a day. Our pup Finn would also be in danger of getting stung.

Hornets and wasps are important pollinators and most wasps are docile. We have multiple wasp nests forming on the eve of our house that we’ll leave alone. The nests are high enough that they’re unlikely to get defensive. Hornets, on the other hand, are a different story and this nest was at eye-level. The resident hornets were not killed! Just relocated deeper into the forest.

[parkarts]

When you want uppies but you trip over your own legs :(

[shailion]

Wauce

[wigmund]

Red Paper Wasp (Polistes carolina) at the Elk Watching Pull-Off in the Boxley Valley Historic District along the Buffalo National River on April 13, 2026

[shailion]

Another baby successfuly relocated outside with the power of blueberry jam

She was really cute and curious, crawling all over my arms and even my phone

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Thyreodon atricolor!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

For an ichneumon, this wasp is considered relatively easy to distinguish thanks to it's large size (roughly 30-35 mm), choice of hosts (sphinx moth caterpillars), and it's sleep schedule (it being diurnal, while most other members of it's subfamily are nocturnal). Many of the writings I found on them describe their flying style as "lazy" or "leisurely", but a few observation posts also mentioned how these wasps rarely stop to rest, possibly the reason why there's such a serious lack of information on these tiny dragons.

[waspdaily]

[salpho]

I think I just got blessed a yellow jacket flew into my room and she came right up to me to take a good look and I felt her wingbeat on my arm and she's now just searching for food or nest materials. I love animal. #myBugFriend

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Baeus seminulum!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Or as I like to call her, the Jellybean. And yes, this crumb of a creature is in fact a wasp— albeit a very tiny one. Oh, and a lady. The males of this genus are winged and have much more typical wasp appearance. Meanwhile, the females use their tininess to go undetected and hitch rides on spiders, waiting for them to lay their eggs so that she can lay her own within them.

(And if you want to see them in motion, I recommend checking out photo 2's source as the photographer has multiple clips of one preening!)

[waspdaily]

PSA (public spider announcement): beware of tiny stowaways

[eyobis-andthe-bunnycats]

*Update! It's a European hornet! Buggy is back outside*

Yoooo.... Did I just find an invasive species??

Wtf is this thing, I've never seen this guy before?? It's like as big as my whole thumb

[ID Start: three images of a large winged insect that looks similar to a bee or wasp with a red-brown head, fuzzy light brown thorax, and a dusty yellow-orange abdomen. The wings are about the same color as the head. /End ID.]