Spotted Orbweavers (Neoscona sp.) in an Organ-pipe Mud-dauber Wasp (Trypoxylon politum) Nest

#Wasps #Spiders #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Nest #Nests #Hymenoptera #Insect #Insects #Arachnid #Arachnids #Arthropod #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

Paper Wasp (Polistes sp.)

#PaperWasp #Hymenoptera #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Insect #Insects #Wasp #Wasps #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

Brown-belted bumblebee (𝘉𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴) perched on a sunflower (𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴 sp.). 🌻 🐝

(This is one of my favorite pictures I've taken. I took it five years ago and posted it on my previous instance back in 2024, and Throwback Thursday seemed a good excuse to give it a home here as well.)

#InsectThursday #ThrowbackThursday #BloomScrollingWithBee #bumblebee #hymenoptera #insects #BloomScrollingWIthInsect

Honey bees navigate more precisely than previously thought.

Using a drone, the researchers tracked honey bees as they flew between their hive and a food source about 120 meters away in an agricultural environment.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-honey-bees-precisely-previously-thought.html

#bees #hymenoptera

🆕Photoblog: In this accompanying blog post, last author Neoh Kok-Boon shares some pictures concerning his fieldwork.
#hymenoptera #biological #invasion
#microbiota

https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2026/02/18/microbes-molecules-and-mates-unraveling-nestmate-recognition-in-pheidole-megacephala/

🆕Article: Genetics, Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles, and Bacterial Endosymbionts are Associated with the Nestmate Recognition in the Invasive African Big-Headed Ant 𝘗𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘢 in Taiwan
Chiu, Y.-C., Wang, C.-C., Nai, Y.-S., Peng, M.-H., Hsu, J. & Neoh, K.-B.

#hymenoptera #biological #invasion
#microbiota

https://myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=1670&Itemid=444

Bee butt!!

Common eastern bumblebee (𝘉𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴) exploring obedient plant (𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢) flowers, from last august:

#InsectThursday #BeeButt #BloomScrollingWithBee #bumblebee #bees #hymenoptera #BloomScrollingWIthInsect #insects

Four (parasitic) #wasps (#Hymenoptera) from a SLAM #Malaise sample in #Canberra #Australia over the last three weeks. Natural areas everywhere are (or should be) full of beautiful #insects like these, all just going about their business.

A #FairyWasp in the genus #Mymar - the first I have seen here in the nominate genus - see how tiny this #insect is.

An #ichneumon wasp (#Ichneumonidae) in the subfamily #Campopleginae - probably possible to get this one to genus, but most Australian species are unnamed.

#Vosleria australia (or at least that's the only named Australian species in the genus) - family #Encyrtidae

#Anastatus, unknown species - family #Eupelmidae

#biodiversity #entomology

#microfiction #wasps #hymenoptera

“Its like how I’ve heard your kind describe the galls you get in your teeth—“
“you mean cavities!?”
“Just so! It is like how when examined by the tongue the cavity is said to seem large. And yet, in reality it is small.

That is how it is with mine ovipositor. I can see the cell walls, yes, the holy scriptures in the language of the enzymes… and I just reach in and? I make little correction. I make little change. That is how I make the gall.”

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