Showing posts with label Wasps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wasps. Show all posts
Thursday, February 3, 2022

A wasp from Valhalla

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They named it after Valhalla. OK, a pub called Valhalla, outside which the new species was found, but still... New species of gall wasp disc...
Friday, October 1, 2021

The Cosmic Eros hard at work

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  Not sure what the pic above is supposed to be, some kind of creepy wasp attacking an equally creepy spider. Now, how on Earth (pun may be ...
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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Planet of the ants (and gentle giant hornets)

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NN or Nationalnyckeln is a Swedish biological encyclopedia. This is one of the most interesting volumes, unfortunately only availabl...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Way over my head

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Credit: Ivar Leidus "The Social Biology of Wasps" is a heavy, technical and scholarly anthology about hornets, yellowjackets and o...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The boring wasps

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Don't get me wrong. I'm sure "The Pollen Wasps" is a very good book...for professional entomologists. However, for...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Give the Devil his due

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This short remark was originally posted as a "review" of "Behavior and Social Evolution of Wasps: The Communal Aggregat...
Friday, August 3, 2018

The bizarre world of solitary wasps

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"Solitary Wasps. Behavior and Natural History" is a look at the bizarre underworld of solitary wasps, a group of insects d...

Don´t cry beewolf

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The beewolves are a group of ground-nesting, solitary wasps. They belong to the genus Philantus of the family Sphecidae. The name ...

The Aldo Leopold of wasps

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"Wasp Farm" is easy to read, interesting, fascinating, even funny. It's one of the better popularized works on natural...