Minnesota Pollinators and "friends"
Insects live and work in a world of amazing botanical structure and intense color that we can barely imagine. I try to capture the beauty of these wildly varied and amazingly successful creatures, in the small yet dazzling world they live in.
Recently I've been photographing Minnesota's pollinators on native plants.
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Great Black Wasp
The Great Black Wasp, Sphex pensylvanicus, is a digger wasp common in North America. It's a pollinator, and also known for attacking and paralyzing other insects which it then feeds to its larvae. Despite its large size and intimidating appearance, it's not agressive and not likely to sting humans, as it's solitary and has no colony to defend. In the sunlight it has beautiful blue highlights. This one is on a Rattlesnake Master - Eryngium yuccifolium - in Minnesota.
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