#crabronidae

[apocrital]

2025 WAUCE BLAST

As the year comes to a close I wish to inundate you all with some of the coolest, prettiest or strangest wasp photos uploaded to iNat this year, inspired by @cathartidae's wauce blasts

Gonatopus and liopterid

Gasteruption and Cameronella

Eumenine and Smicromorpha doddi

Ammophila wrightii and Stilbula

Pelecinus polyturator and Chrysis viridula

Tracheliodes curvitarsis and Oxyscelio

Orasema and Apoica pallens

Scelionids and Feron kingi

Neotriadomerus and Phlebopenes

Euplectromorpha variegata and chalcids

Antron douglasii and Stylaclista

Synergus and Obenbergerella

Elasmosoma and Polistes dominula

Odontophotopsis melicausa and Stizus texanus

Stypiura and Radumeris tasmaniensis

Part 2

[reanimateobjects]

[ljsbugblog]

just for fun, a compilation of every wasp species I've seen drink from the pond so far.

Spider Wasp, genus Fabriogenia.

Potter Wasp, subfamily Eumeninae.

Potter Wasp, genus Paralastor.

Square-headed Wasp, subfamily Crabroninae.

Vase-cell Mud-dauber Wasp, Sceliphron formosum.

Square-headed Wasp, genus Pison.

Australian Paper Wasp, Polistes humilis.

[jupiterswasphouse]

[VIDEO TAKEN: APRIL 20TH, 2026 | Video ID: A video of a camera focusing in on a hole in a log. Inside the hole is a yellow, black, and white square-headed wasp, which becomes clearer as a light is turned on. The wasp moves around and seems to investigate something about its surroundings from its log burrow, perhaps in response to the attention or perhaps just as part of its natural burrowing behavior, before flying out and away from the area /End IDs.]

I was so SO excited to investigate this little burrow and find a square-headed wasp!!! They're so so so cute!!

[razehider]

the giant reeds near me often have peculiar looking aphids (Melanaphis donacis), and it was while looking for them that i found this aphid wasp instead (Pemphredon sp., not to be confused with the parasitoids known as aphid mummy wasps, Aphidiinae). with neither of us finding what we were looking for, she briefly inspected my finger hoping i would be infested with aphids instead

(May 5th, 2025)

[cnestus]

Not the most exciting crabronid I've ever seen but I like its alliterative name: 'Psenulus pallipes parenosas (Pate)'

[ichneumoniid]

The killerrrr

This one’s a (non-stinging) male, you can tell because he’s smaller than a female and has only one spur on his hind tibiae instead of two

(Sphecius speciosus, 7/30/2025)

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