All pics same alt. Several views from different angles and degrees of closeness. A medium sized wasp- maybe as wide as a yellow-jacket but then 1 1/2 to 2 times as long? is perched on the long narrow leaf of a fireweed plant with bits of other green leaves visible and a blurred mostly green background with hints of other colours (mostly purply-grey) and some dark shadows. The wasp is an intense medium dark copper colour, shiny all over with shiny nearly trasnparent wings with dark veins which are held somewhat folded against its 'back' but wider as they go farther from the head and extending out to the sides a bit beyond the insect. The long legs are the same colour, maybe darker toward the tips (like the long dark antennae) and reach right to the edges of the leaf.

All pics same alt. Several views from different angles and degrees of closeness. A medium sized wasp- maybe as wide as a yellow-jacket but then 1 1/2 to 2 times as long? is perched on the long narrow leaf of a fireweed plant with bits of other green leaves visible and a blurred mostly green background with hints of other colours (mostly purply-grey) and some dark shadows. The wasp is an intense medium dark copper colour, shiny all over with shiny nearly trasnparent wings with dark veins which are held somewhat folded against its 'back' but wider as they go farther from the head and extending out to the sides a bit beyond the insect. The long legs are the same colour, maybe darker toward the tips (like the long dark antennae) and reach right to the edges of the leaf.

All pics same alt. Several views from different angles and degrees of closeness. A medium sized wasp- maybe as wide as a yellow-jacket but then 1 1/2 to 2 times as long? is perched on the long narrow leaf of a fireweed plant with bits of other green leaves visible and a blurred mostly green background with hints of other colours (mostly purply-grey) and some dark shadows. The wasp is an intense medium dark copper colour, shiny all over with shiny nearly trasnparent wings with dark veins which are held somewhat folded against its 'back' but wider as they go farther from the head and extending out to the sides a bit beyond the insect. The long legs are the same colour, maybe darker toward the tips (like the long dark antennae) and reach right to the edges of the leaf.

All pics same alt. Several views from different angles and degrees of closeness. A medium sized wasp- maybe as wide as a yellow-jacket but then 1 1/2 to 2 times as long? is perched on the long narrow leaf of a fireweed plant with bits of other green leaves visible and a blurred mostly green background with hints of other colours (mostly purply-grey) and some dark shadows. The wasp is an intense medium dark copper colour, shiny all over with shiny nearly trasnparent wings with dark veins which are held somewhat folded against its 'back' but wider as they go farther from the head and extending out to the sides a bit beyond the insect. The long legs are the same colour, maybe darker toward the tips (like the long dark antennae) and reach right to the edges of the leaf.