Dasyscolia ciliata on Sage-leaved Rock-Rose (Cistus salviifolius)

I think the first wasp I saw last year was in around August. This isolated example today was a big surprise.

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

#Trump’s #SecretPolice Are Stalking More and More Students

We are at that point when one can consider that travelling to the #USA if you're not #WASP and wealthy, is highly dangerous. And also remaining in the US if you are only on #visa or #greencard also puts you at high risk of being simply disappeared on a pure whim, by zealote officers of a heavily #racist, #xenophobic and #authoritarian #dictatorship . The USA are not a #democracy anymore. You can't trust it.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-ice-secret-police-student-abduction/

Paper #Wasp, / #Polistes annularis /. These ladies survive winter by storing up nectar in their nests, which turns into a thick liquid, not quite, but a lot like honey.

(Canon M50, 180mm macro, f/4, crop)

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

From “You Will Fail” to 15,000 GitHub Stars: The Story of Wasp, a “Laravel for JS” Full-Stack Framework, by @matijasosic@x.com (@wasplang@x.com):

https://dev.to/wasp/from-you-will-fail-to-15000-github-stars-the-story-of-wasp-a-laravel-for-js-full-stack-1fil

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

2018-08-19 – Nikon D3300
wasps and cactus, Ventiane, Laos

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

A sign of spring

Northern Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus)

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/264752274

Sphecius speciosus, the #CicadaKiller #wasp!
I used to be terrified of these big ol dudes until I learned they are essentially harmless to humans. After that I enjoyed them curiously buzzing around me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus

A Sceliphron mud dauber wasp carries a glob of mud back to her mud nest, the weight of her load counterbalanced by her unusual petiolate abdomen. Texas. #sceliphron #sphecidae #wasp #insects #flight

Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysididae spp.) #photography #macro #insects #wasp #Stunday #PhotographersUnited #parasite #EastCoastKin

White-banded Potter Wasp (Ancistrocerus albophaleratus).

Manitoba, Canada.
#WaspWednesday #wasp #insect #hymenoptera #Manitoba