Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Images

Images intro.
Filter Total Items: 5021
close up of image
Xylocopa-sonorina,-back
Xylocopa-sonorina,-back
Xylocopa-sonorina,-back

Xylocopa sonorina, Female, March 2012, Hawaii, Oahu

close up of image
Yellow wasp, m, back, Kruger National Park, South Africa Mpumalanga
Yellow wasp, m, back, Kruger National Park, South Africa Mpumalanga
Yellow wasp, m, back, Kruger National Park, South Africa Mpumalanga

Vespid wasp from Kruger National Park in South Africa. This is one that we see periodically taking nips of nectar from some of the trees we study. No time to look up the species group, but likely it a social species of some kind. Large too, about the size of a bumblebee in length..,Photo by Erick Hernandez.

Vespid wasp from Kruger National Park in South Africa. This is one that we see periodically taking nips of nectar from some of the trees we study. No time to look up the species group, but likely it a social species of some kind. Large too, about the size of a bumblebee in length..,Photo by Erick Hernandez.

close up of image
Yellow wasp, m, face, Kruger National Park, South Africa Mpumalanga
Yellow wasp, m, face, Kruger National Park, South Africa Mpumalanga
Yellow wasp, m, face, Kruger National Park, South Africa Mpumalanga

Vespid wasp from Kruger National Park in South Africa. This is one that we see periodically taking nips of nectar from some of the trees we study. No time to look up the species group, but likely it a social species of some kind. Large too, about the size of a bumblebee in length..,Photo by Erick Hernandez.

Vespid wasp from Kruger National Park in South Africa. This is one that we see periodically taking nips of nectar from some of the trees we study. No time to look up the species group, but likely it a social species of some kind. Large too, about the size of a bumblebee in length..,Photo by Erick Hernandez.

close up of image
Yellow wasp, m, left, Kruger National Park, South Africa Mpumalanga
Yellow wasp, m, left, Kruger National Park, South Africa Mpumalanga
Yellow wasp, m, left, Kruger National Park, South Africa Mpumalanga

Vespid wasp from Kruger National Park in South Africa. This is one that we see periodically taking nips of nectar from some of the trees we study. No time to look up the species group, but likely it a social species of some kind. Large too, about the size of a bumblebee in length..,Photo by Erick Hernandez.

Vespid wasp from Kruger National Park in South Africa. This is one that we see periodically taking nips of nectar from some of the trees we study. No time to look up the species group, but likely it a social species of some kind. Large too, about the size of a bumblebee in length..,Photo by Erick Hernandez.

close up of image
Yellow-Fox-Tail-dew
Yellow-Fox-Tail-dew
Yellow-Fox-Tail-dew

Setaria glauca, Yellow Foxtail, Beltsville, Maryland with dew, August 2012

Setaria glauca, Yellow Foxtail, Beltsville, Maryland with dew, August 2012

close up of image
Yellow-shafted Flicker 1, U, Breast feather, black and white DC
Yellow-shafted Flicker 1, U, Breast feather, black and white DC
Yellow-shafted Flicker 1, U, Breast feather, black and white DC

A black and white version of the previous picture...can't decide if I should have left that straying barb on the left in there or not...it adds a lot of tension to the picture...perhaps too much.

A black and white version of the previous picture...can't decide if I should have left that straying barb on the left in there or not...it adds a lot of tension to the picture...perhaps too much.

close up of image
Yellow-shafted Flicker 1, U, Breast feather, Washington DC
Yellow-shafted Flicker 1, U, Breast feather, Washington DC
Yellow-shafted Flicker 1, U, Breast feather, Washington DC

Yellow-shafted Flicker, Breast Feather, in original colors with hints of brown/tan in some of the basal barbs, From a specimen picked up on the streets, by the group "Lights out DC" of Washington DC in 2012 after striking a building

Yellow-shafted Flicker, Breast Feather, in original colors with hints of brown/tan in some of the basal barbs, From a specimen picked up on the streets, by the group "Lights out DC" of Washington DC in 2012 after striking a building

close up of image
Yellow-sow-Thistle
Yellow-sow-Thistle
Yellow-sow-Thistle

Sonchus species, Beltsville, Maryland, August 2012

close up of image
Yellowbug cuvette, U, face, Dominican Republic
Yellowbug cuvette, U, face, Dominican Republic
Yellowbug cuvette, U, face, Dominican Republic

Membracid from Dominican Republic floating in hand sanitizer in a quartz cuvette

close up of image
Yellowjacket, Back, MD, Talbot County
Yellowjacket, Back, MD, Talbot County
Yellowjacket, Back, MD, Talbot County

Vespula squamosa - The Southern Yellow Jacket....the two yellow racing stripes on the top of the thorax (scutum) are diagnostic in the SE U.S. Collected by Tim McMahon from Talbot County, Maryland

Vespula squamosa - The Southern Yellow Jacket....the two yellow racing stripes on the top of the thorax (scutum) are diagnostic in the SE U.S. Collected by Tim McMahon from Talbot County, Maryland

close up of image
Yellowjacket, Head, MD, Talbot County
Yellowjacket, Head, MD, Talbot County
Yellowjacket, Head, MD, Talbot County

Vespula squamosa - The Southern Yellow Jacket....the two yellow racing stripes on the top of the thorax (scutum) are diagnostic in the SE U.S. Collected by Tim McMahon from Talbot County, Maryland, Notice the notched compound eyes characteristic of most vespids.

Vespula squamosa - The Southern Yellow Jacket....the two yellow racing stripes on the top of the thorax (scutum) are diagnostic in the SE U.S. Collected by Tim McMahon from Talbot County, Maryland, Notice the notched compound eyes characteristic of most vespids.

close up of image
Yellowjacket, Side, MD, Talbot County
Yellowjacket, Side, MD, Talbot County
Yellowjacket, Side, MD, Talbot County

Vespula squamosa - The Southern Yellow Jacket....the two yellow racing stripes on the top of the thorax (scutum) are diagnostic in the SE U.S. Collected by Tim McMahon from Talbot County, Maryland

Vespula squamosa - The Southern Yellow Jacket....the two yellow racing stripes on the top of the thorax (scutum) are diagnostic in the SE U.S. Collected by Tim McMahon from Talbot County, Maryland

close up of image
Yucca filamentosa 2, Adam's Needle, GFG, Howard County, Md, Helen Lowe Metzman
Yucca filamentosa 2, Adam's Needle, GFG, Howard County, Md, Helen Lowe Metzman
Yucca filamentosa 2, Adam's Needle, GFG, Howard County, Md, Helen Lowe Metzman

Yucca filamentosa. A wild eastern Yucca. I always thought the odd Yucca in some beatup corner of the East was an escapee. But this is not the case as you can see here. Pollinated by moths, not bees. Specimen and picture by Helen Lowe Metzman.

Yucca filamentosa. A wild eastern Yucca. I always thought the odd Yucca in some beatup corner of the East was an escapee. But this is not the case as you can see here. Pollinated by moths, not bees. Specimen and picture by Helen Lowe Metzman.

close up of image
Yucca filamentosa, Adam's Needle, GFG, Howard County, Md, Helen Lowe Metzman
Yucca filamentosa, Adam's Needle, GFG, Howard County, Md, Helen Lowe Metzman
Yucca filamentosa, Adam's Needle, GFG, Howard County, Md, Helen Lowe Metzman

Yucca filamentosa. A wild eastern Yucca. I always thought the odd Yucca in some beatup corner of the East was an escapee. But this is not the case as you can see here. Pollinated by moths, not bees. Specimen and picture by Helen Lowe Metzman.

Yucca filamentosa. A wild eastern Yucca. I always thought the odd Yucca in some beatup corner of the East was an escapee. But this is not the case as you can see here. Pollinated by moths, not bees. Specimen and picture by Helen Lowe Metzman.

close up of image
Zanthoxylum americanum , Prickly Ash, Howard County, MD, Helen Lowe Metzman
Zanthoxylum americanum , Prickly Ash, Howard County, MD, Helen Lowe Metzman
Zanthoxylum americanum , Prickly Ash, Howard County, MD, Helen Lowe Metzman

Common Pricklyash. Zanthoxylum americanum. Very rare now in Maryland. Specimen and photograph by Helen Lowe Metzman.

close up of image
Zanthoxylum americanum 2 , Prickly Ash, Howard County, MD, Helen Lowe Metzman
Zanthoxylum americanum 2 , Prickly Ash, Howard County, MD, Helen Lowe Metzman
Zanthoxylum americanum 2 , Prickly Ash, Howard County, MD, Helen Lowe Metzman

Common Pricklyash. Zanthoxylum americanum. Very rare now in Maryland. Specimen and photograph by Helen Lowe Metzman.

close up of image
Zanysson, spring island, SC, shepherd, back
Zanysson, spring island, SC, shepherd, back
Zanysson, spring island, SC, shepherd, back

Zanysson - A crabronid wasp. Most of the stinging wasps are fairly badass in aspect, to use a technical term. This one certainly is worthy of a tattoo on someone's chest and was collected by Merle Shepherd from Spring Island along the coast of South Carolina. It is unclear which species this is, but perhaps someone will reveal that to us.

Zanysson - A crabronid wasp. Most of the stinging wasps are fairly badass in aspect, to use a technical term. This one certainly is worthy of a tattoo on someone's chest and was collected by Merle Shepherd from Spring Island along the coast of South Carolina. It is unclear which species this is, but perhaps someone will reveal that to us.

close up of image
Zanysson, spring island, SC, shepherd, face2
Zanysson, spring island, SC, shepherd, face2
Zanysson, spring island, SC, shepherd, face2

Zanysson - A crabronid wasp. Most of the stinging wasps are fairly badass in aspect, to use a technical term. This one certainly is worthy of a tattoo on someone's chest and was collected by Merle Shepherd from Spring Island along the coast of South Carolina. It is unclear which species this is, but perhaps someone will reveal that to us.

Zanysson - A crabronid wasp. Most of the stinging wasps are fairly badass in aspect, to use a technical term. This one certainly is worthy of a tattoo on someone's chest and was collected by Merle Shepherd from Spring Island along the coast of South Carolina. It is unclear which species this is, but perhaps someone will reveal that to us.

close up of image
Zanysson, spring island, SC, shepherd, face
Zanysson, spring island, SC, shepherd, face
Zanysson, spring island, SC, shepherd, face

Zanysson - A crabronid wasp. Most of the stinging wasps are fairly badass in aspect, to use a technical term. This one certainly is worthy of a tattoo on someone's chest and was collected by Merle Shepherd from Spring Island along the coast of South Carolina. It is unclear which species this is, but perhaps someone will reveal that to us.

Zanysson - A crabronid wasp. Most of the stinging wasps are fairly badass in aspect, to use a technical term. This one certainly is worthy of a tattoo on someone's chest and was collected by Merle Shepherd from Spring Island along the coast of South Carolina. It is unclear which species this is, but perhaps someone will reveal that to us.