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Avispa de las flores.
One large and one small wasps mating. Both red and black. The larger male can ...
A handsome male flower wasp about 25mm body length.
A large wasp with a slender, long black abdomen with bright yellow lateral ...
One of many which have nests throughout roofing
Solitary wasp. One inch long. Very slender. Thick black antennae.
This flying animal was found drowning in the pool
A large parasitoid wasp sometimes called a flower wasp that typically lays eggs ...
Males of Thynninae have wings, but the females are very different, wingless, ...
This orange wasp is coupled with a wingless female. She lays eggs in the ...
This spotting is of a winged male (8mm) and a slightly smaller wingless female ...
A wingless female wasp attached to a winged male. Past spottings like this ...
This 23 mm long metallic blue "ant " with red legs and antennae is actually a ...
There are 10 species in the United States. Females are robust, with short, ...
This large and strong looking wasp. Approximately 30mm face-to-tail, setae ...
I helped this beauty out of our screen-in tent while we were camping. Black ...
Native Flower wasp. Female.are wingless, and hunt ground-dwelling beetle ...
A large black wasp about 35mm long with a robust thorax, thin waist and ...
A black male wasp ( about 15 mm long) with clear wings and narrow abdomen with ...
About 15 millimeters in body length, very slender, banded black and yellow.
About 12-15 millimeters in body length, colored as shown. Very spiny legs.
Back seat driver !?
A tiny wingless female flower wasp rides around ...
About 30mm long overall. Mostly black with fine pale setae around head and ...
A large longicorn which looks very similar to the larger flower wasps (
This wasp was of a moderate size-15 mm. It had black head, eyes, thorax and ...
A type of flower wasp, Blue "ants", aka Bluebottles, have a distinctive ...
Diamminae, and is both morphologically and behaviorally unusual among members ...
the related family Tiphiidae. In ...