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The Wasps

Many, many thanks to Joshua Rose and Patrick Coin for identifications and corrections on this and several other pages on this website. Their help is much appreciated.


cuckoo wasp sp.

cuckoo wasp sp., Chrysis sp.
On Thoroughwort, Cowboy Camp Meeting vicinity, Texas 27, Mountain Home, 27 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

Yellowjacket

Yellowjacket
Horse Barn, Camp Rio Vista, 1 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

paper wasp nest, probably Yellowjacket
Horse Barn, Camp Rio Vista, 1 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

yellowjacket sp.
On Thoroughwort, Cowboy Camp Meeting vicinity, Texas 27, Mountain Home, 27 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Vespidae -- True Wasps
red paper wasp sp.



red paper wasp sp., cf. Polistes sp.
On Thoroughwort, Cowboy Camp Meeting vicinity, Texas 27, Mountain Home, 5 November 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

Mason Wasp

Mason Wasp, Monobia cf. quadridens
Camp Rio Vista, 6 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Scoliidae

Digger/Blue-winged Wasp

Digger or Blue-winged Wasp, Scolia dubia
On Cowpen Daisy, Camp Rio Vista, 30 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


Sphecidae
Ammophilinae
thread-waisted wasp sp.

thread-waisted wasp sp., Ammophila sp.
On Thoroughwort, Cowboy Camp Meeting vicinity, Texas 27, 30 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


black thread-waisted wasp sp.

black thread-waisted wasp sp., Eremnophila aureontata
On Thoroughwort, Cowboy Camp Meeting vicinity, Texas 27, Mountain Home, 27 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


miscellaneous wasp sp.
large wasp sp.

large wasp sp.
On White Aster, along Cade Loop, above the dam, Ingram Dam Lake, 10 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci

small wasp sp.

small wasp sp.
Camp Rio Vista, 13 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


small golden wasp sp.

small golden wasp sp.
Camp Rio Vista, 23 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


yellow thin-waisted wasp sp.
On Cowpen Daisy, Camp Rio Vista, 17 October 2002
photos © by tony gallucci


mud dauber (thread-waisted wasp) sp.

mud dauber (thread-waisted wasp) sp.
River Valley Ranch Creek drainage, Cade Loop, Ingram, 21 September 2002
photos © by tony gallucci