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Take a Wasp Rehabilitation Tour with me today. I’m reading from The Xerces Society quarterly magazine Wings, Spring 2025; this essay by Rae Powers and Jennifer Hopwood.
Do look at their website, chock full of information about insects. It’s one of the best, most thorough websites I’ve ever encountered; Xerces.org.
I think you’ll agree with me that you’ll never think of wasps the same way again. “There are approximately 123,000 known wasp species… Parasitoid wasps make up 73 percent of all described wasp species, around ninety thousand. These range from the world’s smallest insect, the fairyfly-six thousandths of an inch long, about the width of a human hair, to the giant ichneumon, a slender wasp with a body roughly two inches long.”
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