If you've ever seen a spider-hunting wasp capture, sting, and paralyze a spider, you know what these wasps can do. Renowned wasp expert Marius Wasbauer (1928-2021) studied them for about six decades. When he died this spring in Brookings, Ore., his family donated his collection of specimens to the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology. It's a massive collection of more than 50,000 aculeate (stinging) wasp specimens, primarily spider wasps. Wasbauer, a retired senior scientist/systematist at...
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