Some photos from Monday's walk with @vivia in the neighbourhood.

Featuring: a sparkling starling on a tree, a butterfly in a field of flowers, a hooded crow on a tree, and a tiny wasp nest on the stem of a flower.

Got stung by a wasp, cleverly hiding inside the handle of the sauna bucket.

Big wasp hurts a lot

Reminded me of when I was pulling up anchor on the foredeck of our boat in Greece and took a step back without looking. Onto a wasp, which stung me into that soft skin between the toes.

I had the anchor out of the ground already, so couldn't stop to hold my toe. @vaviurka back at the helm was wondering why this routine operation yielded so much swearing until I limped back

Anyone good at identifying small wasps from photographs? I could use some help on this iNaturalist observation from 2018. Might be Nealiolus or Aliolus ... or something else entirely. @bugid #inaturalist #wasp #hymenoptera #braconid #braconidae #insects #entomology
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/14744462

I seem to have a lot of paper wasps in the yard at the moment.. I'm pretty sure they have a nest in the roof of the garage because they're following the fence line along to it.

I don't have to get rid of them, right? Like they're not terribly harmful or aggressive and I can just leave them be (pun intended..) and not have to get someone in to kill them, right?

New tenant in shed № 2 #allotment #wasp #nature #wildlife #insects

Stil Licht Fotografie | 74 from 622 photos | Franse #veldwespen #wasp op bloeiende #klimop. Makkelijk te herkennen door de lange poten die tijdens het vliegen in de lucht hangen. Ik zag ze een paar jaar geleden voor het eerst in #Eindhoven #natuur #nature @wespenstichting
https://eu.zonerama.com/Link/Photo/203495456/110163

#dagelijksAI #dailyAI met #ithy
en deze sluit mooi aan bij de #bijen van gisteren:
vertel me alles over wespen @wespenstichting #wespen #wasp #ai #natuur #nature
https://ithy.com/article/alles-over-wespen-nederland-belgie-5rjz8zkj1l

I laughed and cooed because I knew

Pet Wasp
Lara Chamoun

#Poetry #LaraChamoun #Wasp #TheShore

https://www.theshorepoetry.org/lara-chamoun-pet-wasp

jetzt seht euch diese schönheit an, die da auf dem weg krabbelte
eine Haus-Feldwespe Polistes dominula, eine sehr verträgliche wespenart, ein nützling, auch wenn ich diese so menschenzentristische einteilung eigentlich ablehne. die tut einem jedenfalls für gewöhnlich nichts, das ist auch nicht diese hartnäckig-aufdringliche sorte die unbedingt was von deinem kuchen haben will

Spotted new galls forming on an oak that has volunteered in a bad location next to a years-old catalpa and the clothesline.

Not just that big bulbous green one, but little "mosquito bite" ones starting up in adjacent branches.

Nice article here on the behaviour of those nice #wasp #queens

https://theconversation.com/heres-how-to-create-a-more-nature-literate-society-253373

Shadows of Contemplation.
#InsektenSamstag #insect #Hymenoptera #wasp #Ichneumonidae #Manitoba

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/28/hazel-ying-lee-wasp-hero/ #DEI #WASP #pilots #WW2 #ChineseAmerican #PDX #PortlandOR #PortlandOregon #racism #discrimination #racism

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "Condemning the host," showing a prehistoric wasp (Xenomorphia) injecting an egg into a fly pupa.

Yesterday I saw my 2nd "common" ectemnius, on a roadside near Lincoln, #NZ. This wasp is from Europe, Asia, & North America. It was first found in the southern hemisphere in Feb 2020 in Christchurch by Hannah Nolan, for her undergrad entomology collection at #LincolnUniversityNZ. It triggered a biosecurity response, and she passed the course.

There have now been 30 observations, all in and around Christchurch, as it slowly expands.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/266870319

Given the Orange Felon’s push to erase everyone who isn’t a white male from history, let’s post links to original history sources here and keep the knowledge alive.

The Womens Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) museum at Avenger Field, TX
https://www.waspmuseum.org

The story to get the WASP officially recognized as veterans for their service in WWII
https://erinmiller0.wixsite.com/ffffbooklanding/about

Torymid wasps are just awesome.
#wasp #hymenoptera #insect #Torymidae