Found dead, unfortunately: a Feather-legged Scoliid Wasp/Dielis plumipes plumipes, at Arverne East, one of the few places they’ve been found in NYC.
A close-up of the feathery leg. These feed their young scarab beetle larvae.
Ammophila pictipennis dusted with a bit of pollen. Adults eat nectar and hunt caterpillars for their young.
Aerial yellowjacket nest, abandoned after the season. The smallness and smoothness of this makes me think it’s the work of uncommon-around-here Common Aerial Yellowjackets/Dolicovespula arenaria. Far more common are the larger and shaggier Bald-faced Hornets/Dolichovespula maculate. See my last post on them. That nest came down in last weekend’s long rain and, as it was over the street, has been flattened:
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