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Messor bouvieri
#NewSpecies!
New cuckoo wasp from #india just cuckooed:
Chrysis cataka
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/133587CD-FF98-7374-FF6E-4E57FC42FC04
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14681819
#LinzerBiologischeBeiträge #ChrysisCataka
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A Potter Wasp, Phimenes flavopictus, spotted at Ulu Sembawang Park Connector, Singapore on 24 Nov 2024. A small, common wasp, belonging to a family of wasps that make nests out of mud that resemble small pots.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/254289624 ].
Messor bouvieri
Megachile centuncularis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Snapped last June, Ardennes, France.
Published under #CC0 here https://flic.kr/p/2q8JaV9
#Hymenoptera #Macro #Pentax #nature
#photography #insect #wildlife #mywork #bee
#NewSpecies!
New parasitoid wasp from #canada just flew in:
Perilampus seneca
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8E7FAE03-F132-58F1-915F-E83B028645EE
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97.133255
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A Thread-waisted Wasp, Chlorion lobatum, spotted at Coney Island, Singapore on 10 Nov 2024. A parasitic wasp with a metallic blue body, this one was moving through the undergrowth, looking out for grasshoppers, crickets or katydids.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/251144599 ].
In which I wax poetic (or at least wax) about parenting and the fabulous American Pelecinid Wasp for #WaspWednesday.
#wasp #insects #hymenoptera
acorns.fyiWeird Wasp Wednesday – acorns.fyi
Here is an excellent high quality and factual *new* video on the evolution of ants from the generically named "Ants Documentary" channel.
I was worried it'd be AI slop, but it's not. although they could do better image and video attribution IMO. But, it's just some ant fan going off so I'm not mad. #antvideos #ants #youTube #Hymenoptera
A Scollid Wasp, Liacos erythrosoma, spotted at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore on 2 Nov 2024. I'm told that this is common in the SE Asian region. Even so, this is the first iNat observation of it in Singapore, which makes me happy I got shots of it.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/250259786 ].
A tiny Trissolcus parasitoid wasp lurks among a clutch of stink bug eggs. Mindo, Ecuador. #Hymenoptera #Insects #Biology #Scelionidae
This Phytodietus solitary wasp is an koinobiont ectoparasitoid, which means that it will not inhibit the growth of its host on which it feeds from the outside, but it will eventually kill it nevertheless. They target leaf spinning caterpillars of micro-moths, which provide a semi-concealed hideout for their cocoon and after they pupate they make a meal of them leaving nothing but their skin.
"...conspicuous spots are more likely to evolve in forest-dwelling species and in areas with more canopy cover, whereas species inhabiting open areas and deserts tend to lose them... taxa with conspicuous spots transition between open and forested habitats less often... We suggest that spots in velvet ants require complex visual environments to be effective... In simpler environments, carrying conspicuous spots could be costly..."
Hill Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus rupestris)
@futurebird indeed, hormones. When in some species a worker becomes queen its lifespan increases dramatically, and shrinks back as dramatically when it reverts to worker, even in laboratory conditions.
"Ant queens can live for decades, while most workers survive only weeks to a few years. In most organisms, longevity is traded-off with reproduction, but in social insects, these two life-history traits are positively linked." – Negroni et al. 2021 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2019.0736
And also: "queen and worker lifespan diverge in closely related species representing the transition from solitary to social life and show that queen and worker lifespan are correlated if colony size is taken into account: with increasing colony size the lifespan differential between queen and worker increases" – Kramer snd Schainle 2013 https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-abstract/109/3/710/2415673
@wplalonde@lgbtqia.spaceBicolored sweat bee (𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑠) on rose mallow (𝐻𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑐𝑢𝑠), from August of 2022:
@wplalonde@lgbtqia.spaceGreen metallic sweat bee (male 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢, I think) on barren strawberry (𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘥𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴) from April of 2021:
An absolutely gorgeous pergid sawfly, photographed in Victoria, Australia. These are herbivorous relatives of wasps. #pergidae #hymenoptera #insects #nature
