Including this black, thread-waisted wasp. Maybe not everyone. I learned that some say that the Siberian Squill is invasive and that it will take over a garden. So there’s that. Guess it depends some on the climate. They have kind of set up an autonomous zone under a cherry tree here…have to keep an eye ;).
Tag: Thread-waisted wasp
Bonus – A Good Look at the Thread in Thread-wasted
On the trumpet vine, again.

Bonus – Thread-waisted Wasp – Because I Can
On a trumpet vine. Neat, no?

Bee 034 – Asters…but a Two-fer

Honeybee in flight and one of the many thread-waisted wasps. Hard to shoot those because they sure don’t hold still.
Bonus – Hang Five!

Hang five? More like two or three? The Thread-waisted Wasp is an inadvertent pollinator. And at the rate they move around (they’re very hard to photograph), my guess is that they get a good bit of pollinating done. Although they do feed on nectar, they also eat other insects. This one is consuming what looked like a very young grasshopper (for which I shed no tear).