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	<title>The Backyard Arthropod Project &#187; Wasps</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>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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		<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>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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		<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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		<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>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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		<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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		<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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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Northern Paper Wasp Nest and Male</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/12/04/northern-paper-wasp-nest-and-male/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/12/04/northern-paper-wasp-nest-and-male/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=2337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And now, for our 200th installment, we visit these ladies that we&#8217;ve seen before. They are Northern Paper Wasps, Polistes fuscatus. But this time, there was a nest built in the eaves of our house that was in a very convenient spot for photographing. So, let&#8217;s have a look at the nest: It actually started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another Caterpillar Parasitoid Wasp</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/09/25/yet-another-caterpillar-parasite/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/09/25/yet-another-caterpillar-parasite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/?p=2165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If it doesn&#8217;t say Sunkist, you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re getting&#8220;[1] Sam and I were out in the yard next to the herb garden, when Sam said, &#8220;Look, caterpillar poop!&#8221; and pointed at the sage patch. Sure enough, there were caterpillar droppings on the sage leaves, and looking a bit closer we found a good-sized, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mud Dauber Nest, With Spiders</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/08/28/mud-dauber-nest-with-spiders/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/08/28/mud-dauber-nest-with-spiders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we pulled our barbecue out in the middle of July, we found this mud nest partially constructed inside of it. Since it was going to be killed anyway by the heat when we used the grill, I carefully removed it so that we could get a better look, and see what was inside. We [...]]]></description>
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