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Vespidae
Garden on limestone outcrop in foothills of los Serranos mountains.
Spotted on Jun 20, 2016
Submitted on Aug 25, 2016
2 Comments
Thanks John, I have updated the heading.
Wasp.
Note how the wings are folded lengthwise down the middle. This doesn't always work, but when you see that it is a good guess you have a wasp in the family Vespidae (which include among other things the social wasps).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespidae