Hymenoptera – Ants, Bees, and Wasps

Ants

Brachymyrmex depilis

Crematogaster

Tapinoma sessile

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

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Camponotus novaeboracensis, with woolly aphids

Formica

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Formica rufa with scale insects

Tetramorium species-E

Bees

Bombus ternarius

Colletes

Wasps

Ichneumons, Braconids, and Other Parasitoids

Cryptus albitarsis

Ophioninae

Macrocentrus

Copidosoma

Black and White with Orange Legs, A Dot on the Back, and White on the Anntenae

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Reddish Brown With Long, Straight Ovipositor and a Black Head

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Cuckoo Wasps

Chrysididae

Mud Daubers

Chalybion

Sceliphron caementarium

Sceliphron caementarium nest

Auplopodini

Ancistrocerus

Paper wasps

Polistes dominula

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Polistes dominula again (better pictures)

Polistes fuscatus female

Polistes fuscatus male and nest

Sawflies

Diprion similis

Caliroa cerasi

Neodiprion

Yellowjackets and Hornets

Dolichovespula maculata (Bald-faced hornet)

Vespula vulgaris

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Dolichovespula arenaria

Vespula consobrina

Vespula alascensis

Gall Wasps

Amphibolips (oak apple gall)

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