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Mud Wasp – Delta pyriforme

vids — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:59:47 +0000

Delta pyriforme is a species of potter wasp in the subfamily Eumeninae of the family Vespidae. They are distributed across Asia. Wikipedia

Sungei Buloh – May 2025

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Black Mud-dauber Wasp

vids — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 04:27:18 +0000

Scientific name: Sceliphron javanum

Sceliphron, also known as black mud daubers or black mud-dauber wasps, is a genus of Hymenoptera of the Sphecidae family of wasps. They are solitary mud Wikipedia

Location: Lornie PCN – Feb 2024

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Hover Wasp – Eustenogaster micans

vids — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:33:13 +0000

Eustenogaster: These relatively large and robust hover wasps present a distinctive nest structure with the central part of the nest formed by a comb of a bunch… Wikipedia

Thanks, Zestin Soh Bees & Wasps of Singapore for the ID

Location: Rifle Range Nature Park – Dec 2022

Hover Wasp – Eustenogaster hauxwelli

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Sericocampsomeris stygia

vids — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 11:52:50 +0000

The Scoliidae, the scoliid wasps, are a family of about 560 species found worldwide. They tend to be black, often marked with yellow or orange, and their wing tips are distinctively corrugated. Wikipedia

Location: Coney Island, September 2022

Thanks, Zestin Soh Bees & Wasps of Singapore for the ID

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Ropalidia erythrospila

vids — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 12:37:22 +0000

Ropalidia is a large genus of eusocial paper wasps in the tribe Ropalidiini distributed throughout the Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Australasian biogeographical regions. The genus Ropalidia is unique because it contains both independent and swarm-founding species. Wikipedia

Ropalidia erythrospila (Cameron, 1908)

Thanks, John Ascher Bees & Wasps of Singapore for the ID

Location: Choa Chu Kang – July 2022

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Four-spotted Velvet Ant

vids — Sun, 22 May 2022 11:38:49 +0000

The Mutillidae are a family of more than 7,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. Their common name velvet ant refers to their dense pile of hair, which most often is bright scarlet or orange, but may also be black, white, silver, or gold. Wikipedia

It’s Wasp, not an Ant, Females lack wings and have a stinger.
Velvet, because they are fuzzy, and ant, because they look like an ant.

Scientific name: Dasymutilla quadriguttata

Be careful, this has a really, really nasty sting.

Location: Dairy Farm Nature Park – May 2022

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Stenodyneriellus guttulatus

vids — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 06:23:19 +0000

Stenodyneriellus is an Australasian and Indomalayan genus of potter wasps. Wikipedia

Choa Chu Kang – September 2021
Admiralty Park – Dec 2021

Thanks, John Ascher Bees & Wasps of Singapore for the ID

Identification mark: the two tiers of yellow on the first metasomal segment (base of abdomen) and the notch in the apical band

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Hover Wasp – Eustenogaster hauxwelli

vids — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 10:54:03 +0000

Eustenogaster: These relatively large and robust hover wasps present a distinctive nest structure with the central part of the nest formed by a comb of a bunch… Wikipedia

Location: Admiralty Park – Jan 2022

Thanks, John Ascher Bees & Wasps of Singapore for the ID

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Thread-waisted wasp – Isodontia diodon

vids — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:27:43 +0000

Isodontia is a genus belonging to the family Sphecidae. Adults emerge from their cocoons in early summer, and usually make nests lined with grass or hay in hollow plant cavities. This has led to their common name being grass-carrying wasps. The larvae are often fed Orthoptera that the adult has paralyzed. Wikipedia

Thanks Zestin Soh Bees & Wasps of Singapore for the ID

Location: Choa Chu Kang – Jan 2022

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Trypoxylon

vids — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 12:36:52 +0000

Trypoxylon is a genus of wasps in the family Crabronidae. All Trypoxylon species that have been studied so far are active hunters of spiders, which they paralyse with a venomous sting, to provide as food to their developing larvae. Wikipedia

Location: Choa Chu Kang – Nov 2021

Thanks, Michael Ohl Bees & Wasps of Singapore for the ID

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