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Reptangle — Wasps of unknown type
Published: 2011-07-17 22:52:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1090; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 19
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Wasps that I collected. I haven't identified them, but they have a wingless form that lives underground! From talking to bee experts , species with a wingless form isn't too unusual. Why didn't I learn this in school?Related content
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Wasps are related to ants. That's why ants have a winged form just as these wasps have a wingless form.
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They are pretty normal, but then again, so are most insects arount this part. The ground ones makes small nests under the ground, and there is usually a stone near the entrance, otherwise it simply loooks like a hole in the ground
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I had a bash through a couple of my insect field guides and one of them has a wasp that looks like this. It's called a "Scarab Hunter Wasp" and it ranges along the west coast catching beetles. Here's a link: [link]
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Whoa..that could be what it is!-but I will have to carefully look at my bug, and see if it matches.
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I tried to match it based mostly on the abdomen markings which are not entirely clear in your photo. I think it's a fair bet though...
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Wow, I didn't know that there were wasps with wingless forms! That's really intersting... It's not like ants though, is it? The only wingless wasp I knew of was the velvet ant, but I didn't know there were others that had both wings and no wings within the same species!
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Wasps are related to ants. That's why ants have a winged form just as these wasps have a wingless form.
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we have wingles ones here too but they are fuzzy , even though its a wasp its called a velvet ant they're kinda cute and have one hella nasty sting too
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i like wasps i dont see why everybody is so freaked out by them
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There's a giant wasp my wife and I saw around here (mid-Michigan) called a cicada wasp. It was a good three inches long and digging out a burrow where someone had edged their sidewalk. Kind of freaky to see, but guess there'd be no reason for the males to have wings for something like that.
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those are neat...my son has something that looks similar...but it's encased in lucite.
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Huh... those almost look like velvet ants (Mutillidae, a family of wasps with wingless females.) It's hard to tell, though.
Still, very neat!
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They do! Same wasp family probably. (I love velvet ants)
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looks like what I've heard referred to as a "Honey Wasp", though I could be mistaken. It could be a form of mud wasp that I have seen as well.
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For the same reason anthropology, botany, and geology aren't required for an art degree. *snerg* I did skip the botany in my sciences due to my allergies.
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They are creepy but beautiful too!
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Its a consperice I tell you! I dont know LOL teachers think they know much, but they dont.
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