Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa sonorina)
Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

Ensign Wasp (Evania appendigaster)
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber (Sceliphron caementarium)
Black Delta Vespid Wasp (Delta curvatum)
Paper Wasp (Polistes aurifer)
Ichneumon Wasp (Meteorus laphygmae) ?
Ichneumon (Spolas sp.) ?
*Little Wasp (Spolas sp.) ?
*Black-bottom Wasp ( ) ?
*Miniature Wasp ( ) ?
Parasitic Wasp ( ) ?
Unknown Parasitic Wasp ( ) ?


Names preceded by an asterisk indicate common names that I have made up.

These bees bore holes in wood to build their nest.

Intentionally introduced from California in 1857 to produce honey and pollinate crops.

This wasp is a cockroach egg parasitoid.  It lays a single egg in a cockroach egg case where the developing larva undergoes five molts during which time it devours all of the cockroach eggs.

This nest is approximately 5 cm in diameter.  Specimen seen but not collected; thus identification remains to be confirmed.

	Photo from the web.
	Photo of my specimen. Body length 4.5cm. Also known as Mud-dauber Wasp.

	This photo is from the Bishop Museum web site.
	This paper wasp nest is about 2.5 cm across.  Specimen seen but not collected; thus identification remains to be confirmed.

Dorsal view.	Dorsal view.	Side view.  Body length = 4 mm.

This is an introduced ichneumon, a wasp parasitic on other insects. ID by David Preston of the Bishop Museum.

Body length about 7 mm.

This is an endemic species of ichneumon, a wasp parasitic on other insects.
ID by David Preston of the Bishop Museum.

Dorsal view.	Closeup. Body length = 5mm.

ID by David Preston of the Bishop Museum.

Dorsal view.	Body length of this small wasp is 3 mm.

ID by David Preston of the Bishop Museum.

Dorsal view.	Dorsal view with wings extended.	Side view.	Ventral view.

This wasp is only 1 mm long.

Body length about 1mm in length.