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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pepsinae » Tarantula-hawk Wasps and Allies (Pepsini) » Priocnemis » Priocnemis oregona
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small wasp - Priocnemis oregona
Copyright © 2008 Michel Kleinbaum

small wasp - Priocnemis oregona
Salem, Marion County, Oregon, USA
April 11, 2008
Size: 12mm approx.
a very active little wasp (or is it a bee?) with long antennae. I only managed 2 pics

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Contributed by Michel Kleinbaum on 12 April, 2008 - 12:53pm
Last updated 28 April, 2008 - 4:52pm

Pompilidae.
Interesting. Never seen a Priocnemis spider wasp on a flower before, but that sure looks like that is what this is. Maybe a male, judging by the long antennae. P. oregona most likely.
… Eric R. Eaton, 14 April, 2008 - 3:58pm login or register to post comments

 
small wasp
The flower is the Siberian Candy Flower Montia sibirica, the wasp was running all over that small patch of flowers.
thank you again
Michel Kleinbaum
… Michel Kleinbaum, 14 April, 2008 - 4:44pm login or register to post comments

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