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	<title>The Backyard Arthropod Project &#187; Hymenoptera</title>
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	<description>A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI</description>
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		<title>Tiny reddish-brown ants sharing a Pavement Ant burrow</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/01/11/tiny-reddish-brown-ants-sharing-a-pavement-ant-burrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 26, 2011 I turned over a concrete stepping-stone to see what was underneath. There were ants. The ones I saw first looked to be Pavement Ants, which are a species that has been here before. Here&#8217;s one trying to lug an ant cocoon to safety after I exposed their nest: But then, looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pear Slug Sawfly Larva</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/12/10/pear-slug-sawfly-larva/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[July]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandy found what looked like a very small (8 mm long) slug on July 15, 2011. It was eating a leaf on one of our little plum trees. Its most obvious un-sluglike feature was the fact that it was out and about in broad daylight. Once I got some pictures, though, it was evident that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large, Brown, Crane-fly-like Ichneumon Wasps</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/12/03/large-brown-crane-fly-like-ichneumon-wasps/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/12/03/large-brown-crane-fly-like-ichneumon-wasps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[August]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ichneumons and Braconids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[July]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drawn to light]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather large but very spindly orange-brown insects, like this one, are regularly drawn to our porch light in the summer. They look superficially like crane flies, but they aren&#8217;t. It is an Ichneumon wasp, in the subfamily Ophioninae, and it&#8217;s either one of the ones in the genus Enicospilus, or a Short-Tailed Ichneumon in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acrobat Ants Dismembering a Grasshopper</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/10/15/acrobat-ants-dismembering-a-grasshopper/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/10/15/acrobat-ants-dismembering-a-grasshopper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[August]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hymenoptera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 4, 2011 we were all out walking on the trail across our yard when we saw a dead grasshopper on the ground. It was completely covered with crawling black specks, which turned out to be these: Those tiny black ants were only about 2 mm long. That&#8217;s not leaves and grass stems in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yellowjacket and Blackjacket</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/09/24/yellowjackets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[August]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In last week&#8217;s posting, what I thought was a yellowjacket turned out to be something else, but I didn&#8217;t realize this until after writing a bunch of stuff that was specific to yellowjackets. So, for this week&#8217;s post, I specifically went out looking for some actual specimens of the real thing. The goldenrod that grows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potter Wasp with Prey</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/09/17/yellowjacket-with-prey/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/09/17/yellowjacket-with-prey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[July]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wasps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=5481</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sam and I found this wasp hauling her prey up the side of our house, probably to a nest up somewhere under the eaves. The wasp was pretty game about the whole business. I think the caterpillar was too big for her to fly with, and so she had to haul it back home on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odorous House Ants</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/30/odorous-house-ants/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/07/30/odorous-house-ants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ants]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=5386</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 28, 2011, our 3-year-old daughter Rosie came into the house after playing in the back yard, trotted up to me, and proudly held out her arms &#8211; which were covered with at least a hundred (no exaggeration) of these tiny (2-3 mm long) black ants: And if you think that getting clear pictures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mud nest under flowerpot &#8211; Spider Wasps</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/03/05/mud-nest-under-flowerpot-spider-wasps/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/03/05/mud-nest-under-flowerpot-spider-wasps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[September]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=2591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a small potted lemon tree that S_ put outside for the summer, so that it could actually absorb some real sunlight, have its blossoms pollinated properly, and set some fruit[1]. But, once September rolled around, the risk of frost at night got to be too much, and so on September 8 she picked [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cuckoo Wasp</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/01/22/cuckoo-wasp/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/01/22/cuckoo-wasp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuckoo wasps]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=2522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We went down to the Stanton Township North Entry Park (&#8220;The Breakers&#8221;) on June 21, 2010 and Sam found this very, very green insect in the process of drowning in the waves. We brought it home (we didn&#8217;t have a jar, so I carried it in my hand the whole way), and once it dried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oak Apple Gall</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/12/11/oak-apple-gall/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/12/11/oak-apple-gall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gall wasp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were all walking on the trails in the woods behind the Copper Country Humane Society in September when Sam saw this hanging from a leaf on a small oak tree: It was about half the diameter of a ping-pong ball. While it looks like some sort of fruit, it isn&#8217;t. Especially considering that oak [...]]]></description>
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