#chyrsididae

Sometimes its unbelievable what exists right nearby.

Would we be so cavalier about deflowering the rich, complexities of a living breathing forest or field and converting it into a completely flat tarmac of shorn 5 inch tall non-native grass that requires us to pollute, apply biocides, spend time and money so that we can deny ourselves and the world of things like this? 

What’s your contribution Pilgrim?

BTW this is another Chrysidid wasp (cuckoo wasp) from the recovering Hart-Miller Dredge Spoil site in Baltimore Harbor, collected by Eugene Scarpulla, photographed by Brooke Alexander Identification by Lynn Kimsey.  Hedychrum parvum to be specific.

Go Team Earth

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This, I feel, is as piquant as a picture can be.  We are a production shop, we parse thousands of insect specimens collected by many people.  At times, like this one, specimens come in that are uncommon or part of a study (here from a survey of Hart-Miller Island by Gene Scarpulla) and you take what you get.  Normally it is easy to Photoshop out the pin, but in this case it is so tiny a specimen that it has integrated in with the pin and glue....the metallic-ness of both pin and wasp are complementary and the layout graceful which like any good photograph generates stories and questions which your mind answers in its search for meaning.  Phew..., heady stuff, got to cut out the late night chocolate...

Photograph by Brooke Alexander

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Download our free field guide to the genera of bees:http://bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf