Potter Wasp
Eumenes fraternus - female
Range: Widespread in eastern North America.
Food: Adults feed on nectar.
Life cycle: A female lays an egg inside a small mud nest she has built attached to a twig or other stable structure. She provisions the nest with small caterpillars which the larva eats as it grows and develops. It emerges from the nest as an adult.
There are two or three generations of potter wasps a year, depending upon location. The final generation of the year overwinters inside the nest and emerges the following spring. (For photos of larva inside a mud nest, see here.
Source: BugGuide
Eumenes fraternus - female
Range: Widespread in eastern North America.
Food: Adults feed on nectar.
Life cycle: A female lays an egg inside a small mud nest she has built attached to a twig or other stable structure. She provisions the nest with small caterpillars which the larva eats as it grows and develops. It emerges from the nest as an adult.
There are two or three generations of potter wasps a year, depending upon location. The final generation of the year overwinters inside the nest and emerges the following spring. (For photos of larva inside a mud nest, see here.
Source: BugGuide
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Isn't she a beauty. I have them here in my garden too.
ReplyDeletewasps are so unique. that tiny, tiny waist is remarkable.
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