Great black digger wasp ( Sphex pensylvanicus ) by larose forest photos


21-JUL-2016	Christine Hanrahan

Mountain mint attracts a lot of bees and wasps including several of these impressively large Sphecidae wasps.

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Don		23-Dec-2016 21:44
Good macro, with detail both in the black and the white.

Ton T.		04-Aug-2016 07:53
Superb image of this beauty! V

Graeme		26-Jul-2016 13:07
I like its balancing act!! BV

Buz Kiefer		23-Jul-2016 20:15
Nice detail and pose, Christine, and I like those blue highlights. Vote.

Hank Vander Velde		23-Jul-2016 01:22
Beautiful sharp shot of it amid the white flowers Christine.

Helen Betts		22-Jul-2016 23:26
An excellent, incredibly sharp, capture, but a vicious looking wasp! V.

Isabel Cutler		22-Jul-2016 22:48
Hummm....I've been calling these "mud dauber" wasps. I have "organ pipe" nests on the brick in front of my house that are quite deteriorated since no new ones have been erected, but I still see the wasps with the iridescent blue wings. Here's what the nests used to look like: https://www.jungledragon.com/image/26601/organ_pipe_mud_dauber_nest.html

Patrick Goossens		22-Jul-2016 20:53
Extremely sharp image and so close.

Jim Coffman		22-Jul-2016 20:46
Good grief!! That looks to be the size of a small bird!!

joseantonio		22-Jul-2016 20:23
looks really huge here.V.

Chris Morton		22-Jul-2016 20:21
gorgeous photo...of less gorgeous subject

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