Wasps, Hornets and yellow jackets

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V maculifrons clypeus

these are from a grad school class I had to do it was retarded

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the hairy occipital carina of polistes annularis

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Polistes fuscatus lateral shot

if anyone wants more lemme know I don't like wasps that much but I had to do a lot with vespid wasps for this stupid class

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>>2180281
What do you know about tarantula hawks? How long do they live? What is the difference between males and females besides the stinger and can they be kept as pets?

>>2180292
I'm infuriated by the wikipedia article on them.
There's a species in california that gets up to 3 inches long.
I've edited that article a dozen times, changing their line of "up to two inches" and citing references on that species.
But some turbofag keeps reverting it, sometimes commenting about vandalism.
I stopped a couple years ago.
Turbofag won.

>>2180301
Yeah, some people who run Wikipedia are strange about keeping really miner details, even if they are wrong.

>>2180292
theyre huge
their sting hurts like fuck
I wouldn't keep any pompiliidae as a pet
They probably live a year max

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>>2180320
I just read up on the Japanese giant hornet, and learned that the tarantula hawks sting was more painful, so if it must have a worse sting than pic related, I can't even begin to imagine how horrible it feels.

>>2180323
It feels like someone pounded a nail all the way into you with a hammer and then smacked you with the hammer a couple times nice and hard for good measure.

It also bruises and swells like a sonofabitch.

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>>2180324
The bald face hornet bites and stings you simultaneously, more than once if you don't kill it quick.

Something to be said for speed and spread over slow power

>>2180330
I'm really not sure how fast tarantula hawks are, I slapped the one that stung me and squashed it before I even saw the thing. It flew up my shorts and surprised me.

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A jewel wasp is basically the tarantula hawk for cockroachs. They even bring them into a burrow. I wonder why some wasps exist to only attack a specific kind of arthropod.

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Check it out. Paper wasp sting, and I'm allergic. Apparently some fuckin female decided to build a nest on my porch chair and I went to move it. There you go.

This shit hurt like a motherfucker. Twenty four hours later got a full leg rash/tremendous swelling. Then this one area turned stiff, swollen, extremely painful and itchy.

Now it's just a gross yellow/blue bruise.

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>>2180339
specificity in hosts for insects is more normal than generalism

one idea is that resource-use tradeoffs tend to favor specialist traits. so no one phenotype is optimal across all situations like infecting all hosts or killing all bugs. in order to gain a more beneficial trait for its environment, the genes involved in host use for wasps would shift towards only specializing in one type of prey thats abundant in their environment.

tl;dr usually nature prefers a one-trick pony to a jack of all trades from a bunch of theories

>>2180348
>usually nature prefers a one-trick pony to a jack of all trades
well, it favors a progression from generalist to specialist to extinct anyways.

generalists won't ever go away because they're more likely to survive in unstable environments, and over a long enough time line all environments are unstable.

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>>2180348
hm, didn't know that is was more common to prey on one prey more than multiple in the insect world. Thanks Flick.

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>>2180352
yeah generalists do have their roles and are pretty hearty thats why most invasive shit is generalist insects

but i think like 90 percent of species are specialists or something crazy like that

>>2180358
>i think like 90 percent of species are specialists or something crazy like that
not surprising since "species" and "specialist" describe the same phenomenon.

a species is a concept of specialization.

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I love how wasps are associated with the black and yellow color scheme like bees, but are so many other colors. Flies have that same problem to, they really vary in color other than just black like people think.

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>>2180365
saved

>>2180365
Most of those are tropical, where it is apparently more difficult to become a first world country.

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Saw this fucker dragging a huntsman up a wall the other day while I was walking.

is it true killing them releases pheromones and upsets others?

>>2180365
that's more than just nitrogen diet?

>>2180394
you're not fooling anyone, anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NV3EK4YsP8

>>2180345
gross

>>2180323
I have a few of these guys living in a tree outside of my home. I'm going to go kick it a bit and see if I get them to some out so i can take some good pictures.

>>2180330
I have seen these in my yard occasionally. Finally killed one, now i know what it is. Yikes.

Anyways i love wasps and hornets because i enjoy hunting them down and spraying them with poison. I have two traps as well, one of them has 80 or more kills the other i just got so only 20ish. Seems i have murdered most of the local population as seeing them is now rare, which saddens me.

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>>2181222
Hope you don't get stung anon!