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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Vespidae » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Eumenes » Fraternal Potter Wasp (Eumenes fraternus)
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Potter Wasp - Eumenes fraternus - male
Copyright © 2007 Ted Kropiewnicki

Potter Wasp - Eumenes fraternus - Male
Bear, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
September 3, 2006
On Showy Stonecrop (Hylotelephium spectabile).
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Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 10 December, 2007 - 3:57pm
Last updated 10 July, 2011 - 12:32pm

Yes - Eumenes fraternus
Surperb shot of a (2nd generation, maybe 3rd) male.
… Richard Vernier, 10 December, 2007 - 4:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Eumenes fraternus
Thank you! Would be so kind as to explain the 2nd or 3rd generation comment.
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 10 December, 2007 - 4:32pm login or register to post comments

 
There are at least...
two generations in a year, from late spring to early fall. This one male would have been dead for long if he had been from the first generation.
Overwintering takes place at the prepupal instar, in the mud pots built by last generation mother females. Emerging adults will be the first generation of next year.
… Richard Vernier, 10 December, 2007 - 7:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Life Cycle
Richard, thank you for educating us! I included your comments in Life Cycle section of this wasp's species page. Ted
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 10 December, 2007 - 9:58pm login or register to post comments

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