wasps are nice

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[swampfrogcentral]

these perfect dew drops on my strawberry plant

[boyx-deactivated20190424]

[concretecritter]

It only took me all semester, but i finally sat down and finished detailing my beloved glass Arapaima!

I will probably give the scales some touchups later, but i could not be happier with how this guy feels in the hand. Perfect size, perfect texture. I’ve been holding him & using him like a worry stone. Weighs a lovely 325g.

Carved from a block of lead crystal using a lap wheel, a lathe, & hand dremels.

[uv-ray]

Quercus robur, English Oak.

[dolicho-vespula]

I'm alive btw (extremely neglected side blog cuz I just started posting bugs on my main and pet blogs)

[nabsthevulture]

Jacked up teeth on Wyoming X1. She’s the coyote with the huge hole in her face whom I suspect got caught up in some wiring that wore her teeth down. That had to have been a problem for a while to cause such extensive and deep damage.

[strangebiology]

Looks like she was using her teeth to try to escape a snare. Thoughts?

[addicted2wasps]

33 of 48. Finally finished. Chrysis mionii. Drawn with coloured pencils.

[a-wasp-in-the-hand]

this sweet angel kept me company this morning after i found him sleeping on the side of the house. i put my finger in front of him and he quickly woke up, then climbed onto my finger almost immediately, which was surprising, and very endearing.

i spent some time in the yard, all the while he was walking between my hands, sipping leftover sugar on my skin from the donut i had for breakfast, or simply resting on my fingertips as i walked around. he flew off after a good half an hour/forty minutes. i was shocked he didn’t leave earlier. definitely one of the longer encounters i’ve had with a wasp, especially a bald faced.

Dolichovespula maculata, Bald Faced Hornet

8/27/24

[addicted2wasps]

Cutie Vespula vidua worker lapping up sugar water from my finger.

[hexiva]

This might be the biggest bug I've ever seen in the wild. It was sitting on a bush right by the sidewalk on the street I live on . . . it came to visit me.

@onenicebugperday this bug was so nice.

[addicted2wasps]

29 of 50. The amazing Conura lasnierii, or as I like to call it, the Darth Maul wasp. I had planned to draw this one for a long time and I finally got around to it!

[wandering-jana]

Matera, Italy is famous for the Sassi, small homes built into the rock that supports the city. The residents shared the space with their farm animals. They were lived in until the 1950s.

March 3, 2024

[addicted2wasps]

I'm halfway through my drawing project! Just another 25 wasps to go and I'll be finished! I still have a lot of work ahead of me, but at least I'm halfway done. This Oligosita (possibly O. sanguinea), is the 25th drawing out of 50 so far! I started this project with Chrysis equestris on January 16th 2024. I'm aiming to finish by the end of the year, but that might be unlikely. We'll see! :)

[onenicebugperday]

Earwig, Auchenomus sp., Spongiphoridae

Photographed in Singapore by budak

[bugshroom]

moths on lightsheet

David Fischer, Malaysia, 2024.

[morbidsmenagerie]

Paruroctonus luteolus! This small scorpion is often overlooked, as it's commonly mistaken for a baby Smeringurus mesaensis. They are found in the Anza-Borrego desert in Southern California, but are uncommon in areas with other larger scorpions such as Hadrurus or Smeringurus because they can easily get preyed upon. Not much is know about them, I'm extremely lucky to be able to take some notes on their captive care.

[platycryptus]

It’s a fly-eat-fly world out there… in the sandy scrubland of central Florida, a hanging thief robberfly (Diogmites esuriens) devours a beefly (Exoprosopa fascipennis).

Interestingly enough, the beefly is a parasitoid that lays eggs in the nests of sand wasps (Bembix), which are themselves specialist hunters of flies including both beeflies and robberflies (though I’m not sure whether this hanging thief is too formidable to be on the wasps’ menu). Insect food webs are amazingly convoluted.

(9/30/23)