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This observation and images belong to Donald Buden, College of Micronesia, Pohnpei, FSM.

This small paper wasp is Ropalidia marginata. It is very common in the Mariana Islands, where it is locally referred to as one of two species of "boonie bees". This observation indicates a range extension into Mejit Island. Previously recorded in the Marshall Isands on Kwajalein Atoll (Sugarman 1972).

References

Swezey, OH, 1942. Wasps of Guam. In Insects of Guam I.: Listed under the synonym Icaria marginata</>

Sugerman, Bernard B. 1972. “Insects and Other Arthropods from Kwajalein Atoll (Marshall Islands).” http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/11013.

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At the north end of Minnie’s Lake on the Middle Fork of the Suwanee River in the Okefenokee, we paddled into a cove of Spatterdock and downed cypress that held an inspiring spectacle: no less than six or seven young alligators congregated in a small area. The center of attention were... SEE VIDEO FOOTAGE AT http://williamwisephoto.com/photographyblog/okefenokee-swamp-juvenile-gator-pod

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This is really Entoloma perzonatum and not E. translucidum. They are not synonyms according to sequence data.

E. perzonatum distinctly stripy and in turf and relatively small. E. translucidum less stripy, in forests and large.

And then there is also the similar E. pluteimorphum, and this is the real version of that ...
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/1547290

Внешность полностью соответствует первоописанию вида Phlegra andreevae Logunov, 1996.
Coloration. Carapace brown, with two dorsal bands of white hairs. Sides of carapace covered with black hairs. Eye field black, covered with orange-grey or grey-brown hairs. Clypeus brown, densely covered with white hairs. Sternum, maxillae and labium yellow-brown to brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Abdomen yellow-grey, with a pair of dorsal longitudinal dark brown stripes. Dorsum with small scutum. Spinnerets brown. All legs yellow-brown to dark brown; tibiae and patellae sometimes darker than other segments. Palp with dorsal bunch of white hairs on tibia and patella.