Life on a Quarter Acre > Insects > Hymenonptera > Aculeata > Apoidea > Pemphredonidae

Pemphredon inornata

Collected a male on 4 July 2022. Identified with Dolphus's 1995 key. (No iNaturalist observation.)

Another male was collected from the same site (the entrance to the nest on the decaying branch). I cooled it in the fridge, marked its thorax with yellow paint, and released it near the branch pile.

On June 30, 2022, I saw a group of three that were mating. I posted the video on twitter.

Resources
Bug Eric - Aphid Killers: Pemphredon Wasps
A Worldwide Revision of Pemphredon, Dolphus 1995