Garden - great fall color
The tiny wasp in this picture is about 1cm long. There were a couple of them on the Asters just sitting there to my untrained eye. Before the age of industrialized farming and its dependence on Italian honey bees, pollination on the American continent relied on flies, mosquitoes, moths, butterflies and wasps like this one. I wonder how the population of natural pollinators has been affected by the introduction of the honey bee.