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amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social
Visitor photo #2: something from the Ichneumonoidea family (??) on an oyster mushroom. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
April 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social
Visitor photo #3: another from the Ichneumonoidea fam on a young oyster. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
April 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
ajcann.bsky.social
Wasp fans rejoice!

#Wasps #Hymenoptera #Entomology #Ichneumonoidea
British Ichneumonoidea - Malcolm Storey "Lennart Bendixen and I have just submitted the manuscript to our forthcoming WILDGuide to Britain's Darwin Wasps. There's still quite lot to be sorted out before it gets printed but most of the outstanding work is now somebody else's responsibility! I have no idea how long it will take - could easily be next spring."
March 19, 2026 at 8:23 AM
aglaia.bsky.social
Het is wespentijd. Heerlijk! Gewoon tussen peen gaan zitten en in een halfuurtje zie je graafwespen (Crabronidae), sluipwespen (Ichneumonoidea), keverdoders (Tiphiidae), spinnendoders (Pompilidae) en veldwespen (Vespidae). 😍
Crabronidae and Ichneumonoidea Tiphiidae (Tiphia femorata) Pompilidae Vespidae (Polistes dominula)
August 24, 2023 at 6:08 PM
sjberger.bsky.social
An ichneumonoidea wasp depositing eggs into a gray-headed coneflower.

Video in next post...

🌱 #NativePlants #invertebrates #Minnesota
A slender black and brown wasp suggestively mounting a pale green flower head. A long appendage is extended from her abdomen towards the flower.
July 13, 2026 at 9:05 PM
wahlgrenniclas.bsky.social
Maj 4
Parasitsteklar i Ichneumonoidea är otroligt artrik, men också extremt dåligt utforskade. Vi har troligen långt över 5000 arter i Sverige. Denna är rätt stor och dess ekologi är känd. Pimpla hypocondriaca/rufipes. Parasiterar större fjärilslarver
May 4, 2026 at 5:52 AM
rachbehm.bsky.social
I am presenting at both ECN2024 and ESA2024. Come to my talks especially if you love Ichneumonoidea
November 6, 2024 at 3:19 PM
ymilesz.bsky.social
I worked on euphorine braconids for my PhD but I haven't really touched it since, so it was nice to be included and help contribute in this updated version of the dichotomous key. Hope it will be useful to people as the old version was to me.

cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/articles/ssv...
Key to the New World genera of Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae) and synopses of the genera – Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification
cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca
February 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
rachbehm.bsky.social
endogenous viral genome dispersal in Ichneumonoidea is the virus domestication equivalent of the floppyfication of dog ears and I will not allow myself to be silenced any longer
May 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
zookeys.pensoft.net
A very warm welcome to @ddpichenumonidae.bsky.social as he joins our team of subject editors! We're excited for him to share his knowledge in Hymenoptera systematics and look forward to working with him.

zookeys.pensoft.net/news/1043
Davide Dal Pos joins Zookeys as subject editor for Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera)
Davide Dal Pos is an Italian entomologist who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Central Florida (USA), specializing in Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). His work integrat...
zookeys.pensoft.net
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
snks.bsky.social
Ich bleib bei Schlupfwespenartige (Ichneumonoidea).

Da sind dann die Brackwespen auch noch mit im Spiel ;)
January 8, 2024 at 10:41 AM
alexwild.bsky.social
Here's a tidy new study on the repeated, convergent evolution of a set of parasitic wasp traits when they switch to attacking wood-boring insects. Apparently this behavior and suite of characters pops up several times in the ichneumonid searcher wasps. #Entomology #Insects
A host driven parasitoid syndrome: Convergent evolution of multiple traits associated with woodboring hosts in Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea)
The evolution of convergent phenotypes is of major interest in biology because of their omnipresence and ability to inform the study of evolutionary novelty and constraint. Convergent phenotypes can b...
journals.plos.org
October 21, 2024 at 2:22 PM
tapani-hopkins.bsky.social
My identification is:
Incredibly cute blobs, also too small for me. 😎

(Some day I'll have to get into Chalcidoidea. Once I've finished with the bigger Ichneumonoidea, i.e. about 2326)
americanbeetles.bsky.social Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · May 11
For some reason the Unsorted Exotic Diptera is full of microscopic Afrotropical wasps, what lucky individual who wants to ID them for us?? cc @toomanywasps.bsky.social @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social
A weird tiny wasp from a malaise trap in Botswana A different weird tiny wasp from a malaise trap in Botswana (cynipidae?? Which ones got the thunder thighs, I always forget) Yet another weird tiny wasp from a malaise trap in Botswana, pleasingly iridescent lady with a loooong ovipositor A fourth weird tiny wasp from a malaise trap in Botswana, just a lil short one made of several conjoined orb units
May 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
kmagnacca.bsky.social
Hoo boy…isn’t that what about 3/4 of species separations are based on in Ichneumonoidea?
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org
... and, unexpected bonus wasps, spotted today while waiting for those much more elusive ones. Cuckoo wasp from the Chrysididae, and a mystery wasp from the Ichneumonoidea. Probably.

#Derbyshire #insects #wasps #macroPhotography
Wasp with glittering, metallic green-blue head and thorax and orange-red abdomen, intently searching a pale lichen-covered stone wall. Dark, slender wasp with long folded wings, a stout ovipositor, muscular red-brown legs, long antennae and black compound eyes fringed by yellow - on the edge of a grainy, dark stone.
June 21, 2026 at 8:02 PM
biologicalsurvey.bsky.social
The latest from CJAI: Key to the New World genera of the subfamily Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae) and synopses of the genera. cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/articles/s-52/
Key to the New World genera of the subfamily Agathidinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae) and synopses of the genera – Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification
cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca
November 29, 2024 at 5:38 PM
warmoezer.bsky.social
cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/articles/ssv...
Key to the New World genera of Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea: Braconidae) and synopses of the genera – Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification
cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca
February 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
bdj.pensoft.net
A new subject editor joins our ranks: @ddpichenumonidae.bsky.social, who works on the systematics, morphology, and evolutionary biology of Darwin wasps!

bdj.pensoft.net/news/1053
Davide Dal Pos joins Biodiversity Data Journal as subject editor for Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera)
Davide Dal Pos is an Italian entomologist who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Central Florida (USA), specializing in Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). His work integrat...
bdj.pensoft.net
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
bilderbote.bsky.social
cf Alysiinae F. Specimen ID: 0381. Sex: Female. Size: 2 mm. Collection Location: USA, WI, Bayfield County. Apostle Islands National Lake Shore. Boreal woodland along Mawike Road. WGS84 46.8874N/-91.0408W. Plot: AI-4. Collection Date: 1-Aug-2014. Collector: Brick M. Fevold. “Parasitica” wasp; wings c
cf Alysiinae F. Specimen ID: 0381. Sex: Female. Size: 2 mm. Collection Location: USA, WI, Bayfield County. Apostle Islands National Lake Shore. Boreal woodland along Mawike Road. WGS84 46.8874N/-91.0408W. Plot: AI-4. Collection Date: 1-Aug-2014. Collector: Brick M. Fevold. “Parasitica” wasp; wings crumpled and venation obscured. Possibly Alysiinae (family Braconidae, suborder Ichneumonoidea) based on visible portion of face. Front left view of thorax.
October 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
rdmpage.bsky.social
You suggest worldichneumonidae.com as a good source of names for @gbif.org ... GBIF gets most of its names from Catalogue of Life and it follows Taxapad Ichneumonoidea www.catalogueoflife.org/data/dataset... ... @mdoering.bsky.social may help with explaining why that is.
worldichneumonidae.com
worldichneumonidae.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
rback.bsky.social
So I posted the images in a discussion group for Ichneumonoidea and ended up in fetal position when the obvious was immediately revealed.
My old acquaintance, O. carbonator.
February 9, 2024 at 7:11 AM
jencross.bsky.social
Looking for a long ovipositor is a nice rule of thumb for parasitoid wasps in superfamily Ichneumonoidea. With other superfamilies like Vespidae, which includes paper wasps, the rule doesn't hold at all. BUT only females can sting.
June 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org
More arbitrarily selected bugs from today:

Bombylius major, bee-fly
Vespula sp., wasp (queen)
Bombus terrestris, bumblebee (queen!)
Tiny wasp from the Ichneumonoidea?

#Derbyshire #insects #bees #bumbebees #wasps #macroPhotography #MacroMonday
Round, fluffy ball of bee-fly seen head-on - wings outstretched, transparent at the rear and with a dark brown-black fringe at front, a visor of brown-red compound eyes encircling the head (meeting at the middle, indicating a male), a long, dark, straight proboscis, and spindly long legs down to a large, rough green leaf covered in tiny white hairs. Large yellow-and-black stripy wasp on a glossy green leaf in the sun. Rotund blob of bumblebee, roughly the size of a golden retriever - glossy black hairs with two bands of orange-yellow - on the back of a dead leaf in the sun, surrounded by vivid green blades of grass, preening its face with an outstretched leg like a cat. Tiny, slender glossy-black wasp, long antennae, wings folded, translucent silver in the sun with two dark patches - on the bluntly serrated edge of a smooth yellow-green leaf.
April 7, 2026 at 12:46 AM
tapani-hopkins.bsky.social
Aiheeseen liittyy, että selailin iNaturalist-havaintoja, ja huomasin pistiäisen joka näytti aluksi tutuhkolta, sitten tutulta, ja sitten "hetkinen, onkos tämä kaimani?".

Herra vain tietää kenet saan vahvistamaan tunnistukseni, jahka nuo lajinimet on lisätty.
Ichneumonid and Braconid Wasps (Superfamily Ichneumonoidea)
Ichneumonid and Braconid Wasps from Bujongobe, Kibale, Western, UG on June 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM by acouplewithoutborders
www.inaturalist.org
February 7, 2026 at 6:52 PM
tapani-hopkins.bsky.social
Of course, I have to remember to keep the Microgastrinae from ZMUT.21451 (1/4 sample Hymenoptera) in a separate tube to those of ZMUT.7534 (3/4 sample Ichneumonoidea), so I can mark the former as coming from the 1/4 sample.

Where do I sign up for my new career, writing opaque user manuals?
December 13, 2024 at 7:47 AM