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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>Black Ichneumon with Red Abdomen</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/05/05/black-ichneumon-with-red-abdomen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ichneumons and Braconids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We found this black-and-red ichneumon wasp hanging around our porch light on August 1, 2010. Here it is in long form so that you can see the whole thing: She&#8217;s probably Cryptus albitarsis, the most common of the ichneumon wasps that have this particular coloration. And we can be sure this is a &#8220;she&#8221;, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduced Pine Sawfly Larva</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/04/14/introduced-pine-sawfly-larva/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandy caught this on September 18, 2011 while sweep-netting in the grass on our septic drain field. It was about an inch long, not an unusual size for a caterpillar. One thing that we noted right away, though, is that it wasn&#8217;t actually a caterpillar. If we count the prolegs on the abdomen, we see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woolly Alder Aphids with Carpenter Ants</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/04/11/woolly-alder-aphids-with-carpenter-ants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandy spotted these on September 10. They were on a Tag Alder bush beside the trail going to the back of our property. I recognize these, because I&#8217;ve posted about them before. They are Wooly[1] Alder Aphids, Prociphilus tessellatus. And, these particular aphids were being tended and closely guarded by some good-sized ants (which were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bald-Faced Hornet Nest</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/04/04/bald-faced-hornet-nest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[November]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yellowjackets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandy came back from grouse[1] hunting on October 23, 2011, and said that while she hadn&#8217;t seen any grouse, she had found a nice hornet&#8217;s nest in the woods to the northwest of the house. So, we all trooped back to find this huge hornets nest. There was no hornet activity, so I sawed off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Paper Wasps Strike Again</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/02/15/european-paper-wasps-strike-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 30, 2011, I decided to take down our old, unused satellite dish[1]. So I loosened the mounting bolts on the support bracket, and turned it a bit on the post to loosen it up, and it creaked and vibrated. At which point I heard &#8220;bbzzzzZZZZZ&#8221; and got popped a couple of times on [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/01/11/tiny-reddish-brown-ants-sharing-a-pavement-ant-burrow/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/12/10/pear-slug-sawfly-larva/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=5742</guid>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Arthropods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[August]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=5734</guid>
		<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>
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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>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/09/24/yellowjackets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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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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