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24-AUG-2008 Jason Anderson

August 24: great black (& white) wasp

North Providence, RI

Very black and alarmingly large, with pearlescent blue-black wings. From Wikipedia: sphex pennsylvanic[us] is solitary, non-aggressive and hunts katydids and grasshoppers.

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Nikon D300 ,Quantaray 70-300mm for Nikon AF
1/500s f/5.6 at 300.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Malcolm Smith26-Aug-2008 18:51
Non-aggressive it may be, but still damned terrifying to look at! Good catch.
Matylda Lempel-Chareza Photography26-Aug-2008 08:22
Soft,cute,tell the story-v
Phillip Normanton25-Aug-2008 19:39
Non-aggressive - try telling that to a grasshopper!!! ;-)
J. Scott Coile25-Aug-2008 17:11
Eating on the Smartweed (Polygonum pensylvanicum). Must be getting energy up to battle grasshoppers ;-) Bugs Life!

Made me think of an old PaD PiNg...

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Guest 25-Aug-2008 10:48
Beautiful.
Guest 25-Aug-2008 03:45
I must be white blind, can't see the white wasp! :)
Guest 25-Aug-2008 01:47
very nice indeed
lovely tones
Laryl25-Aug-2008 01:33
oh my.. stand back! bet it's really pretty
Jola Dziubinska25-Aug-2008 00:57
Nicely seen and composed.
Nancy Lobaugh25-Aug-2008 00:25
nice catch... like the high contrast
Faye White24-Aug-2008 23:28
great catch!
laine8224-Aug-2008 23:01
Good Bug Good Bug !!! Eats the bad boys !!!
Nicely delicate shot.
Greg Vescuso24-Aug-2008 22:49
Cool wasp!!non-aggressive my kind of wasp..Very good catch!!1
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