Wasp (suborder Apocrita)

• Yellow-Jackets and kin (family Vespidae)
• Crabronid Wasps (family Crabronidae)
• Thread-waisted Wasps (family Sphecidae)
• Tiphiid Wasps (family Tiphiidae)
• Spider Wasps (family Pompilidae)
• Unidenfied Wasps

Yellow-Jackets and kin (family Vespidae)

Western Yellow Jacket (Vespula pennsylvanica)
Tigard, Washington County, Oregon. 9/22/21

Western Yellow Jacket (Vespula pennsylvanica)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 9/29/21

Western Yellow Jacket (Vespula pennsylvanica)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 9/29/21

European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 9/4/22

European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 9/26/21

Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus antilope)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 10/3/21

Mason Wasp (Ancistrocerus antilope)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 10/6/21

Mason Wasp (Eumenines spp.)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 9/26/21

Mason Wasp (Eumenines consobrinus)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 10/1/21

Mason Wasp (Eumenines consobrinus)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 9/26/21

Bald-faced Hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 9/4/22

Crabronid Wasps (family Crabronidae)

Sand Wasp (Bembix sp.)
Cook Park, Tigard, Washington County, Oregon. 9/26/21

Sand Wasp (Bembix sp.)
Tigard, Washington County, Oregon. 9/23/21

Sand Wasp (Bembix sp.)
Cook Park, Tigard, Washington County, Oregon. 9/20/21

Western Sand Wasp (Bembix americana)
Cook Park, Tigard, Washington County, Oregon. 9/20/21

unidentified Wasp
Wicky Creek, Mt Adams, Yakima County, Washington. 7/19/22

Thread-waisted Wasps (family Sphecidae)

Grass-carrying Wasp (Isodontia elegans)
Cook Park, Washington County, Oregon. 9/13/21

Grass-carrying Wasp (Isodontia elegans) cutting dry grass
Tigard, Washington County, Oregon. 9/24/21

Tiphiid Wasps (family Tiphiidae)

Spider Wasps (family Pompilidae)

(Ageionideus sp.)
Wicky Creek, Mt Adams, Yakima County, Washington. 7/19/22

Lookout Mountain Road, Hood River County, Oregon. 8/8/22

Cook Park, Tigard, Washington County, Oregon. 8/8/22

Unidenfified Wasps

Possibly Emphredon spp.
Tigard, Washington County, Oregon. 9/24/21

Possibly Emphredon spp.
Tigard, Washington County, Oregon. 9/24/21

Lookout Mountain Road, Hood River County, Oregon. 8/8/22

NOTE. A thin waist is typical for a wasp, especially the Thin-waisted family. Most have little or no hair compared to a bee. Flies have 2 rather than 4 wings.