#megaspilidae

[apocrital]

Last two were taken by my friend because my photos of the first one were too blurry to make out anything but a vague wasp shape and the other one was on my shirt

Sawfly (probably Tenthredinidae), ophionine wasp, a bunch of cynipoids (I have a feeling they might not be the gall producing ones but can't really say), another ichneumonid in between those, another ophionine (we saw quite a few of these but they kept flying off before I could get pictures T.T), an encyrtid and a megaspilid

We saw a bunch of other really cool bugs yesterday too, I might post some separately

[addicted2wasps]

It's been a while, but I'm back with another cartoon! This male Dendrocerus (Megaspilidae) is unaware of two secret admirers, a female Lagynodes (Megaspilidae), and a female Ceraphron (Ceraphronidae). I was inspired to draw this cartoon after seeing a comic yesterday that consisted of two beetles, one with antennae, and one without. The dialogue was in Spanish, but it translated to:

Beetle 1: "What happened to your antennae?"

Beetle 2: "I've gone digital."

[bitsandbirds]

Surprised that my macro lens could capture this much detail from a 2mm wasp.

Megaspilid Wasp (Dendrocerus sp.), Ireland