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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Square-headed Wasps (Crabroninae) » Trypoxylini » Trypoxylon » Subgenus Trypargilum (Trypoxylon Subgenus Trypargilum)
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Black Wasp with White Boots on Hind Legs - Trypoxylon
Copyright © 2010 John Hartgerink

Black Wasp with White Boots on Hind Legs - Trypoxylon
Baton Rouge - BREC Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
August 13, 2010
Size: about 3/4 inch
Maybe not enough detail for ID. Not easy to "reach". Used 400 mm lens.
A few of these wasps visit a few curled dead leaves of a muscadine vine (wild grape).
One or another seems to return every 30 to 60 seconds.
One regular Swamp visitor has been observing this behavior for 3 days.
Always "investigate", never perch on leaves.

Resembles Organ Pipe Mud Dauber with white boots.
But why visit this same set of dead leaves?
Could there be a spider inside?

John

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Contributed by John Hartgerink on 13 August, 2010 - 7:19pm
Last updated 12 March, 2014 - 8:47pm

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