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Synoeca septentrionalis
Synoeca Wasp, Synoeca septentrionalis, Atenas, Costa Rica
Synoeca wasps are very aggressive and have a very painful sting! http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/...
Spotted on Jan 1, 2005
Submitted on Jan 1, 2012
5 Comments
Nice capture. If I'm not mistaken these are the wasps that make their nest high up in thick branches of trees, clinging to the side of the branch rather than hanging from it. They call them "Gitarreros" here in northern Costa Rica due to the sound that the nest emits when the wasps are agitated, supposedly it sounds like a guitar. There are a lot of different types of wasps here, and it seems like the locals have names for all of them.
Danke, Lars!
brilliant shot
When I had known this I would have token tons of many other pictures as well... It was at the beginning of my neotropical life journey...
What a beautiful wasp!
Please do take the chance next time and take more pictures of these.