A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Found feeding on spotted bee balm nectar.
Found her lying on the sidewalk dead, unfortunately. Beautiful wasp!
A pretty iridescent blue-black wasp on the flowering catnip in my garden.
Black wasp with iridescent blue wings
A large black wasp. Grows to a size of 20–35 mm (0.8–1.4 in). The larvae feed ...
I watched this big black wasp carry the Katydid thru the air and land in a ...
Spotted while walking on grass path on hill near the Contee Farm house ruins.
Black wasp with purple wings, feel free to correct my ID.
Solid black except for slightly lighter, dark gray bands across abdomen.
Black Wasp stinging a spider. It fought with it for a minute or two then flew ...
A species of digger wasp, this wasp lives across most of North America and ...
Black flying insect with blue iridescent wings. I observed it flying, digging ...
Beautiful dark blue - black wasp. Suspect this is I. philadelphica but cannot ...
A large (22-28 mm) all blue/black wasp with dark wings. This wasp frequents ...
Huge insect, about 1.5-2in long, shiny bluish wings. It was in my squash ...
A large species of digger wasp (family Sphecidae). The sting is said to be ...
Spotted at noon on a very windy day. Partly cloudy. This one sort of dropped ...
Large (easily 1 inch long) black wasp with colorful wings
Large black Wasp with iridescent blue wings. Actively feeding on Oregano ...
One of my favorite summer visitors, this large black wasp is hard to miss! ...
Is a large black wasp, males are smaller than females, at only 19 - 28 mm long, ...
Since the great black wasp is not aggressive and is an important predator of ...
