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I never worked up this 2016 photo from the Peruvian Amazon because I was running into trouble identifying the wasp, in spite of its distinct markings.

But taxonomic resources are more accessible a decade on, and I'm happy to announce that she's the rarely photographed Polistes torresae.

#WaspLove #Polistes #Insects #Wasps

Wide angle macro photograph in a tropical forest, in the foreground, suspeneded from a palm spine, is a dark brown paper wasp nest and a stately black wasp with yellow thoracic markings and white stripes on the abdomen.
#insects #wasplove #wasps #polistes

Eucharitid wasps are specialized parasites of ants. Here's one in a nest of Pheidole bicarinata. Arizona, USA. #orasema #Eucharitidae #Wasps #Ants #Insects
Macro photograph of a metallic blue-green insect with a muscular thorax and gauzy wings standing amid piles of waxy white ant brood, with several orangey brown adult ants wandering about.
#insects #ants #wasps #orasema #eucharitidae

An Anoplius blue/black spider wasp carries away a spider she has paralyzed. Tennessee.

#Insects #Pompilidae #Wasps

On a green leaf, a stocky, spiny black wasps holds a limp orange spider in her mouth by one of its legs.
#insects #wasps #pompilidae

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