{"id":6985,"date":"2020-08-12T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2020-08-19T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:44:10","slug":"happy-accidents-potter-wasp-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/happy-accidents-potter-wasp-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Accidents! Potter\/Mason Wasp in Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

This photo was a happy accident… I think I was taking pictures of a butterfly that flew away and in the midst of clicking captured this image without even realizing it and I love it!<\/p>\n

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A bee\/wasp ID group helped me identify this as a potter\/mason wasp, possibly Parancistrocerus fulvipes. This is a small wasp – not as big as the typical paper wasp we’re most familiar with but larger than a sweat bee… at least from my initial observation. It’s one of the ones I often see on the mountain mint so non-aggressive from what I can tell. These wasps are predators of various beetle larvae, spiders and caterpillars. So – a good balance of insects helps keep all our insect populations in check – which is good because if we didn’t have wasps we might have an overabundance of beetles and that might affect crops that we need. I don’t know the specifics for this particular wasp’s food web but in general it’s good to encourage native species in the garden. Anyway – really I just love the purples and greens in this shot and how the wasp body ended up in focus. It’s fun for a photographer when there’s a happy accident such as this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This photo was a happy accident… I think I was taking pictures of a butterfly that flew away and in the midst of clicking captured this image without even realizing it and I love it! A bee\/wasp ID group helped me identify this as a potter\/mason wasp, possibly Parancistrocerus fulvipes. This is a small wasp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,922,923,1001,11,300],"tags":[482,13,15,955,294,832,293,1205,1215,1018,1160],"class_list":["post-6985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-in-the-garden","category-insects-in-the-garden","category-macro-portraiture","category-nature","category-portraiture","tag-animal","tag-flower","tag-garden","tag-gardening","tag-insect","tag-insects","tag-macro","tag-monarda-fistulosa","tag-nature","tag-nature-photography","tag-wasp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7040,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions\/7040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}