Wasp and Shangri-La at Epsilon Five by Bill Krause

Porte-avions USS Wasp (CV-7) – Port de San Diego – Californie – Juin 1942

USS WASP (CVS-18) at sea in the Atlantic, with two SH-3 Sea King helicopters flying by in the foreground.

Photographed by Ph2 Stabe.

Date: May 9, 1969

Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 97510

"Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., command pilot of the Gemini 11 space mission, climbs from the spacecraft minutes after splashdown. Astronaut Richard F. Gordon, Jr., pilot, still has his hatch closed. The U.S. Navy frogman team attached a flotation collar to the spacecraft."

"Astronauts Richard F. Gordon Jr. (left), pilot of the Gemini-11 spaceflight, and Charles Conrad Jr., command pilot, sit in life raft while awaiting pickup by a helicopter from the USS Guam. Members of the Navy frogman team wait with them."

Date: September 15, 1966

NASA ID: S66-50767, S66-50761

irl buck coming out at his sister's wedding would be r/AITA material

but on TV, well...

So a wasp was in my math class, someone killed it then is disappeared

Then it came back and I'm not even kidding

half the class done ran out the class as fast as they could, it even scared 2 teachers

I've never seen a class more scared in my LIFE 💀💀

Everyone was like fucking chickens 🤣

lol the people in my art class where being pricks so they went to another class and guess who got to draw whatever they wanted

They also complained about how they couldn't use their phones meanwhile I sat there using mine for refs

Hot take perhaps but i just don't like usamerican classical literature like i get why usamericans on here say classics are all boring. I'd think so too, if this was all i read of classics

wdym a fan isn't an effective weapon, i literally just fought a huge wasp with a folding fan in single combat and won

people who hate gilmore girls characters because they're classists are so fucking funny to me because that entire show has classism baked into it. it's like you all just forgot how the maids are treated in that show.

Hornet Class Ortho Views by Away Team Gear

thoughts on bees

they are AWESOME

Javelin Wasp (Gasteruption jaculator)

Family: Carrot Wasp Family (Gasteruptiidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Unassessed

What appears at first glance to be an intimidatingly large stinger protruding from the elongated abdomen of this unusual-looking species of wasp is actually an ovipositor, a tube-like egg-laying structure seen only in females. The great length of a female Javelin Wasp’s ovipositor is an adaptation that aids her in reaching into the burrows in which solitary bees and other species of solitary wasp lay their eggs alongside a supply of pollen to sustain their larvae upon hatching; after mating a female will stretch her ovipositor down through the entrance of her host’s burrow and lay her eggs on the eggs and young larvae within. Upon hatching the larval Javelin Wasps feed on both their host larvae and on the pollen stored for their benefit before pupating and emerging as fully mature winged adults shortly afterwards. Widely distributed across temperate grasslands and meadows throughout Asia and Europe, adults of this species live for only a few months between March and September and (despite their carnivorous start in life) are purely herbivorous, feeding mainly on the nectar of plants in the carrot family.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/472957-Gasteruption-jaculator

USS Wasp (CVS-18) departing the South Boston Naval Annex, Boston, Massachusetts. She was heading, via the Virginia Capes operating area, to Valencia, Spain. Where she then cruised the Mediterranean, visiting ports in Spain, France, and Italy, and returned home on December 18.

Note: YTM 367 is in the first photo.

Date: September 7, 1964

Collection of Dick Leonhardt: link, link, link, link, link, link, link, link

Information from Wikipedia: link