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A Worker of Wood
If you want to begin photographing ants, the carpenter ant is a good place to start. Camponotus (this is most likely C. herculeanus, or perhaps the closely related C. modoc ) are large ants — the...
View ArticleRevisiting the Stumpstabber
One of the most consistently popular blog posts at Splendour Awaits has been The ‘Stump Stabber’ – An Ichneumon Wasp, a post I made on June 8, 2010. I am glad that it remains popular, because for me it...
View ArticleChalcosyrphus plesia (Curran 1925)
From June last year… Very striking in appearance, this hoverfly seems to be mimicking an hymenopteran of some kind. I could find out little about this fly, except that it prefers wooded areas, and that...
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