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3 Triumph Tulip or Tulipa 'Rambo' -
3 Gogi berry or Lycium barbarum -
1 Desert Sage or Salvia dorrii -
5 Western Yellowjacket or Vespula pensylvanica -
2 Tiger Beetle or Cicindela hirticollis -
3 Variegated Meadowhawk or Sympetrum corruptum -
4 Saltcedar or Tamarix chinensis -
![Potter Wasp nest Stuck on a leaf from an Ficus tree. single shot, 1.5X, f6.3
The most widely used building material is mud made of a mixture of soil and regurgitated water, but many species use chewed plant material, instead.
The name "potter wasp" derives from the shape of the mud nests built by species of Eumenes and similar genera. It is believed that Native Americans based their pottery designs upon the form of local potter wasp nests.[2]
When a cell is completed, the adult wasp usually collects beetle larvae, spiders, or caterpillars and, paralyzing them, places them in the cell to serve as food for a single wasp larva.
As a normal rule, the adult wasp lays a single egg in the empty cell before provisioning it. Some species lay the egg in the opening of the cell, suspended from a thread of dried fluid. When the wasp larva hatches, it drops and starts to feed upon the supplied prey for a few weeks before pupating. The complete lifecycle may last from a few weeks to more than a year from the egg until the adult emerges. Adults are black or brown, and usually marked with contrasting patterns of yellow, white, orange, red or combinations of colors. Adult potter wasps feed on floral nectar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter_wasp
Delta unguiculatum,Geotagged,Great potter wasp,Summer,United States](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/5803/137730_small.JPEG?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1770854410&Signature=geAXz96ZssNtroX0JAjdPul14BA%3D)
2 Potter Wasp nest -
3 African Wild Dog or Lycaon pictus -
3 Torocco Half-Blood Orange or Citrus x sinensis -
3 Tephrocactus articulatus var. papyracanthus or Paper Spine Cactus -
3 Melocactus conoideus -
3 Goat's Beard or Tragopogon dubius -
3 Harlequin beetle Acrocinus longimanus -
3 Straight-Spined Barrel cactus or Parodia Magnifica -
3 Atlas Moth or Attacus atlas -
3 Agave bovicornuta or Cow's Horn Agave -
3 Darkling Beetle or Eleodes obscurus -
2 Pug Moth (Synglochis perumbraria) -
3 Agave Victoria-Reginae or Queen Victoria Agave -
3 Agapanthus or Lily of the Nile/African Lily -
3 Vanellus miles or Masked Lapwing -
3 Creosote gall or Larrea tridentata gall caused by the Asphondylia auripila midge -
3 Aspen Fleabane (Erigeron specious)
William Bodine
B.S. Biology. Based in Arizona and a Canon user.
Particularly fond of insects but not exclusively, like close up, macro and extreme macro shots.
Always looking for the unique angle, bright colors/patterns or bizarre looking images.
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