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Backyard and Beyond
Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world. "The place to observe nature is where you are."—John Burroughs
This work by Matthew Wills is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Backyard and Beyond 
COOL!!!!!!!!!
What is the function ofnthe three brown dots on the brown surfac between the eyes in the last photo? Also visual?
Those are simple eyes, ocelli; they detect polarized light, and the position of sun and are used in navigating, finding their way home, etc.
Anybody ever test to se what otheer bands of the electromagnetic spectrum the ocelli detect? Magnetism, maybe?
One of my favorite wasps, probably because it’s one of the easiest to ID, and pretty besides.