she a cool Texan wasp
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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.
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@skptrace submitted: hi there! these are the clearest pictures i got but i'm super curious about this guy. if they're too far away, no worries; thank you for your efforts! villavicencio natural reserve in argentina
Hello :) Looks like one of the thread-waisted wasps in the family Sphecidae, but I can't get more specific than that without clearer photos.
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I thought the best part of learning to use Blender would be making a face that looks like Xiomara, and I wasn’t wrong, but I also wasn’t expecting the sheer euphoria of remodeling outfits to give her more body fat and make her thicker like she deserves :')
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Do you ever have a bad case of "she would not fucking look like that" except you look at canon and realise she very much does look like that.
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One day early in the trip, I was sick and stayed around my tent all day. It wasn't nice to be sick, but the surroundings were beautiful, birds were singing, and it was a chance to poke around and look at bugs.
When I first saw this wasp, it had immobilized the green caterpillar and hauled it to a sandy spot right next to the tent. When I circled back a while later, it had stuffed the caterpillar in a hole and buried it with pebbles. Just like home!
Masai Mara, Kenya, July 2023.
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I just love Hymenoptera order—
And these insects’ petiole (basically petiole = waist) reminded me of Vash… Actually, drawing this, I found even more similarities, like if wasps were a reference to his character design haha
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Saw you like great golden diggers and if I'm not mistaken I saw one shortly after moving to the PNW! She was one of the most beautiful bugs I've ever seen.
Ohhh how beautiful!! I hope that she enjoyed her meal ^^ thanks for sharing!
[Image IDs: Two photos of an orange, yellow, and black great golden digger wasp feeding from a green plant with bundles of white flowers with very prominent stamens, potentially apple mint or a similar plant /End IDs.]
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this Mud-dauber Wasp chose our windowsil to build her nest! after a bit of investigation of me and my camera, she graciously allowed me to photograph her while she worked on her construction.
in the photos above, she has arrived with a ball of mud collected from somewhere nearby. this nest isn't for her to live in, but for her young to grow and pupate. in this mass of mud she will craft several individual cells, and provision them all with the paralysed bodies of orb-weaver spiders. each cell will have a single egg laid on the first spider, before being sealed off with more mud.
here, she picks the next spot to deposit her ball of mud, using her mandibles to smooth it onto the structure. when the larvae hatch, they will consume all the spiders in their respective cells, before pupating and then emerging as adults wasps.
each time she finished with a layer of mud, she would take a moment to groom her forelegs and antennae, before flying off to repeat the process. these photos were taken earlier in the Summer, and as of posting this, the adult wasps have yet to emerge.
Covered-cell Mud-dauber Wasp, female (Sceliphron laetum).
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I didn't read the prompt right last time oops
37 and techno maybe?
But it's just that I fell in love with a war
And nobody told me it ended
And it left a pearl in my head
And I roll it around every night
Just to watch it glow.
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