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Details:
  • Date Photo Taken

    07 / 24 / 2015

  • Season Photo Was Taken

    Summer

  • Region Photo Was Taken

    Southwest

  • City

    Midland

  • State

    Texas

  • Posted by

    aglet123

Notes:

This plant was on side of a state highway somewhere in between Midland Texas and Cloudcroft New Mexico, in mid-July. I am looking for the name of the plant, and I am especially curious about the insects; they were pretty large insects and they were all over the flowers of this plant.

Comments

  • laura735 Unregistered says:

    You’re welcome! Wow, with that many wasps, you were very lucky haha!

    August 5th, 2015 at 7:13pm

  • aglet123 Registered says:

    Wow, thank you very much!!!! I looked up the tarantula hawk wasp. There were probably 30 of them in front of me and all around. I’m lucky I didn’t get stung (and lucky that I’m not a tarantula)!

    August 3rd, 2015 at 11:16pm

  • laura735 Unregistered says:

    The plant looks like Broadleaf Milkweed (Asclepias latifolia). The insects could be a species tarantula hawk wasp of either Hemipepsis genus or Pepsis genus. According to sources they are almost identical, except for wing venation.

    August 2nd, 2015 at 12:16pm

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