Prionyx sp.
On winter savory flowers
Associated Species: Satureja montana (Winter Savory)
Ammophila sp.
(Thread-waisted Sand Wasps)
Associated Species: Satureja montana (Winter Savory)
Prionyx sp.
On oregano flowers
Associated Species: Origanum vulgare (Oregano)
Isodontia sp.
(Grass-carrying Wasps)
Prionyx sp.
Associated Species: Origanum vulgare (Oregano)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Prionyx sp.
Associated Species: Origanum vulgare (Oregano)
Philanthus gibbosus
(Hump-backed Beewolf)
Philanthus gibbosus
(Hump-backed Beewolf)
Associated Species: Petroselinum crispum (Garden Parsley)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Associated Species: Origanum vulgare (Oregano)
Cerceris sp.
(Typical Weevil Wasps and Allies)
Associated Species: Achillea millefolium (Common Yarrow)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Associated Species: Origanum vulgare (Oregano)
Ammophilini
Associated Species: Origanum vulgare (Oregano)
Isodontia elegans
(Elegant Grass-carrying Wasps)
Nesting again in the spruce stump
Sceliphron caementarium
(Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp)
19 Jul 2024
Flitting about on the parsley flowers. Hunting for spiders?
Associated Species: Petroselinum crispum (Garden Parsley)
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
The Aphid wasps have found a new place to nest in the yard. For many years they nested in a brush pile on the north side of the house. Now it's in an old woodpile by the compost. There are dozens of holes with lots of sawdust on the ground to mark th ...
Sceliphron caementarium
(Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp)
On east side of house. Searching for a place to make a nest maybe?
Sceliphron caementarium
(Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp)
On Golden Currant flowers
Associated Species: Ribes aureum (Golden Currant)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Crabro latipes
(Shield-handed Wasps)
On Pacific Ninebark leaf
Associated Species: Physocarpus capitus (Pacific Ninebark)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
On wall of front garden.
I've seen quite of few of these this year, though not as many as previous summers.
Trypoxylon sp.
Subgenus Trypoxylon
From Malaise trap set on June 8-10, 2023.
Isodontia elegans
(Elegant Grass-carrying Wasps)
In raspberry patch
Crabro latipes
(Shield-handed Wasps)
Tachytes sp.
(Sand-loving Wasps)
Isodontia elegans
(Elegant Grass-carrying Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Cerceris sp.
(Typical Weevil Wasps and Allies)
Cerceris sp.
(Typical Weevil Wasps and Allies)
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Isodontia elegans
(Elegant Grass-carrying Wasps)
On Goldenrod flowers
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Isodontia elegans
(Elegant Grass-carrying Wasps)
Sceliphron caementarium
(Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
These three have been at it for the last 15 minutes or so.
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Trypoxylon sp.
Subgenus Trypoxylon
Crabro latipes
(Shield-handed Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Crabro latipes
(Shield-handed Wasps)
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
On a Dandelion flower
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
On a Dandelion flower
Isodontia elegans
(Elegant Grass-carrying Wasps)
Bringing grass to the nest on the spruce stump
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Trypoxylon sp.
Subgenus Trypoxylon
On raspberry leaf
Crabro latipes
(Shield-handed Wasps)
Crabro latipes
(Shield-handed Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Crabro latipes
(Shield-handed Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Crabro latipes
(Shield-handed Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Ammophila sp.
(Thread-waisted Sand Wasps)
~17 mm
Ammophila sp.
(Thread-waisted Sand Wasps)
This wasp spent ten minutes or so digging a burrow in the sand. Then she spent a minute or two covering the entrance with large boulders (some with diameters greater than t the length of her thorax). After she was finished there was no trace of her n ...
Sceliphron caementarium
(Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp)
25 mm
Ectemnius cephalotes
(Large Ectemnius)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Ectemnius sp.
Spruce stump
Isodontia sp.
(Grass-carrying Wasps)
Several of these grass-carrying wasp nests are in an old spruce stump in our yard.
Here is what the nest looks like when completed.
Ectemnius sp.
These wasps flit about from hole to hole on a spruce stump, entering some and then leaving to inspect others.
BugGuide ID
Passaloecus sp.
(Picket-boring Aphid Wasps)
Crabro sp.
(Shield-handed Wasps)
Bringing an insect back to the hole in the stump.
Ectemnius cephalotes
(Large Ectemnius)
Spruce stump
Isodontia elegans
(Elegant Grass-carrying Wasps)
Several of these have nested in on old spruce stump. I've seen them carrying grass to nest holes. There are six completed nests with grass sticking out of holes.
BugGuide ID
Isodontia elegans
(Elegant Grass-carrying Wasps)
Nesting at spruce stump
Ammophila sp.
(Thread-waisted Sand Wasps)
Philanthus gibbosus
(Hump-backed Beewolf)
Tachytes sp.
(Sand-loving Wasps)
Trypoxylon sp.
Subgenus Trypargilum
Caught when leaving a hole in a spruce stump. It had briefly inspected several holes before entering the one in which it was caught. Cooled, photographed, and released. (Before I could get enough pictures!)
Lestica sp.
Captured while leaving drilled hole in spruce stump.
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Caught returning to next in a rotting log. It had a small insect in its mouth.
Sceliphron caementarium
(Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Cerceris sp.
(Typical Weevil Wasps and Allies)
Cerceris sp.
(Typical Weevil Wasps and Allies)
Sceliphron caementarium
(Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp)
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Psenini
~12 mm
Entered hole in an old log. Captured as it was leaving. Cooled and photographed.
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
12 mm
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
12 mm, around brush pile
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Digging a nest in my sand garden
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
I watched this wasp moving the caterpillar, taking occasional breaks, maybe to find a place to dig its nest. (Bug Eric says cutworm wasps paralyze their prey and then dig a burrow to bury it in.) When I came back an hour or so later, the caterpillar ...
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Cerceris sp.
(Typical Weevil Wasps and Allies)
Podalonia sp.
(Cutworm Wasps)
Ectemnius sp.
With a captured hover fly
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Sceliphron caementarium
(Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp)
Pemphredon sp.
(Typical Aphid Wasps)
Appears to be nesting in a hole bored into an old log.