Isodontia elegans - Grass-carrying Wasp
Isodontia elegans - Grass-carrying Wasp
Last Updated: January 28, 2012
PURPOSE:
This image gallery has been created to assist visitors in the identification of wasps. For the most part, I can tell the difference between a wasp and a bee. Bees are usually somewhat chubbier and hairy, while wasps are usually slender, with a constricted abdomen. Of course, as with bees, there are also wasp mimics, most notably syrphid flies, robber flies and one of several other insects. Also, as with bees, the easiest way to determine of your wasp is really a wasp and not a fly is to count the wings. All wasps have 4 wings. All flies have 2 wings. Also, fly antenna are miniscule compared to the antenna of bees and wasps.
PHOTOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS AND DATES:
Currently, the wasp identification on this page is specific to all wasps that show up in and around my yard. These wasps, however, are also found in many other parts of the country; some, like the European Paper Wasp, are found throughout much of North America.
Unless otherwise noted, all images were taken in Northern Douglas County, Oregon.
The date each photograph was taken appears under each thumbnail image. The sex of each specimen, if known, is also indicated under each thumbnail.
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female 08/21/08 |
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female 08/02/08 |
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female? 07/29/08 |
female? 09/27/09 |
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females, arguing over a chamber 08/02/09 |
female 07/10/09 |
female 09/02/09 |
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09/07/09 |
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06/22/09 |
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male 05/26/09 |
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07/24/08 |
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female? 08/20/09 |
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female 08/20/08 |
female, as dinner for Goldenrod Crab Spider - Misumena vatia 06/24/08 |
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female 08/11/08 |
female 08/10/08 |
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female 07/15/08 |
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06/18/09 |
07/07/09 |
07/02/09 |
06/21/09 |
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07/02/09 |
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06/25/09 |
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06/08/10 |
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04/20/09 |
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male 08/03/09 |
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queen 04/19/09 |
medium worker 08/06/09 |
male 08/22/10 |
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female 09/09/09 |
worker - tug-of-war on a syrphid fly with a Misumenops crab spider 06/22/09 |
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mating pair - large winged male, small wingless female 07/02/09 |
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08/25/09 |
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09/04/09 |
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08/01/09 |
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with Xysticus emertoni dinner 09/26/10 |
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09/09/09 |
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04/04/09 |
03/15/10 |
03/15/10 |
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09/06/08 |
08/27/08 |
08/21/08 |
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07/15/08 |
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06/17/09 |
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08/08/09 |
07/29/10 |
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09/03/08 |
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07/06/10 |
07/06/10 |
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female, depositing an egg in its mud nest 08/09/09 |
female 06/24/09 |
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foundress queen, left, with 3 worker females 07/24/09 |
worker female 09/09/09 |
male, larger w/blue eyes and curly antenna tips 09/07/09 |
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female 07/26/10 |
male 09/27/08 |
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female 04/10/09 |
male 09/27/09 |
nest 08/29/09 |
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queen 04/10/09 |
worker 10/01/09 |
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queen 05/08/09 |
worker 09/15/09 |
nest 09/07/09 |
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worker 09/20/08 |
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larva emerging from host Unicorn caterpillar 07/24/09 |
larva pupating 07/27/09 |
freshly emerged female (left), male (right) 08/05/09 |
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08/27/08 |
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female - note the ovipositor curling up from the tail over the back 08/02/09 |
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Gall (We call these Oak Apples.) 06/24/11 |
five adult wasps emerged 06/24/11 |
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08/27/09 |
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08/06/09 |
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10/01/09 |
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09/23/08 |
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female 07/10/08 |
male 06/28/08 |
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08/06/09 |
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07/23/10 |
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subspecies - female 09/01/10 |
subspecies - male 08/31/10 |
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female 07/10/09 |
male 07/16/08 |
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female 09/17/08 |
female 06/03/09 |
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female 06/14/09 |
female 08/05/09 |
female 08/31/10 |
male 08/31/10 |
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07/31/09 |
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09/27/10 |
09/27/10 |
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female 06/17/11 |
female 05/25/09 |
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06/11/10 |
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female 05/29/09 |
female 06/14/10 |
male 06/24/11 |
male 06/03/09 |
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female 08/11/10 |
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female 09/22/09 |
male 10/15/09 |
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male 10/01/08 |
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female - freshly hatched from stink bug eggs 07/03/10 |
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