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Great.
I thought I'd try photographing some insects that visit my yard. The first one I find is an INVASIVE SPECIES! That did explain why I could find no ID info in my guidebooks that are apparently not up-to-date.
This is the fast-spreading European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula), first reported in Massachusetts in the 1970s, and spread throughout the northeastern states by 2000 (according to Wikipedia). Now, in 2021, they are apparently in my yard.
European Paper Wasp on Red Hot Poker Plant, also known as Torch Lily (Kniphofia uraria).
Great.
I thought I'd try photographing some insects that visit my yard. The first one I find is an INVASIVE SPECIES! That did explain why I could find no ID info in my guidebooks that are apparently not up-to-date.
This is the fast-spreading European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula), first reported in Massachusetts in the 1970s, and spread throughout the northeastern states by 2000 (according to Wikipedia). Now, in 2021, they are apparently in my yard.
European Paper Wasp on Red Hot Poker Plant, also known as Torch Lily (Kniphofia uraria).
this was flying away when shot and not hovering. These only hover for about half a second if that most times unlike other hoverflies I've come across
I watched this large hornet fly in to a spiders web storage area where the spider had placed it's latest catch then pull it from up behind the flower chew it's abdomen and then pull it away. The spider was about the same size but made no attempt to get it's catch back. What you see here is the stretching of the body pull just before flying away. This whole thing took about a minute from start to finish.