Published in 2017, after my first serious encounter with nesting Bembix, this blog post was in need of a facelift. And worth it. In the years since, I’ve not encountered as much action as I did on that November day.

At the time I knew little. Not the identity of the wasps. Nor the basis for the behaviours I was seeing. With the benefit of hindsight, I reinterpret that early encounter with Bembix furcata . [January 2026]