"I just walked past the sand v-ball cts on campus and saw them swarming with thousands of small wasps. Stripey, bit smaller than yellow jackets, flying an inch or two over the sand but not the surrounding grass, squabbling/mating? I think they are spider hunters but didn't see any possible prey there. Anyway, not a good day to play volleyball."
In this way did Grinnell College Professor of Anthropology John Whittaker--along with dozens of buzzing Bembecines--inspire this blog.
2008 BIO 368 students Brian Perbix and Ben Iberle, on the hunt
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