DIGITAL FIELD GUIDE: WASPS   (Order: Hymenoptera)

Couplet #1 Entire Key at a Glance

1a: Wasp extraordinarily large, to 2 inches longabout the size of a thumb; body black, sometimes shimmering blue black; wings orange.


Pepsis sp.

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1b: Wasp smaller; of various forms and colors but lacking the two characteristics of extraordinarily large size and orange wings.


Ammophilia procera


Polistes sp.


Red Velvet Scoliid

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