This WASP ceremonial urn cover was designed and created by Idaho artist, John Sword. John donated this urn in honor of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), to be used for inurnment ceremonies for these trailblazing women who flew for the Army Air Forces during WWII.

Phylloteras cupella, formerly Trigonaspis cupella, also known as the urn gall wasp or the banded urn gall wasp, is a species of cynipid wasp that induces leaf galls on a number of oak species in western North America.

Everlasting Tree donates urn covers to veterans cemeteries and veterans organizations where they are used by the family and friends of American veterans during the ceremony or funeral service. The leaf on the lid was replicated in bronze from an actual leaf collected from Arlington National Cemetery.

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The urn was sculpted from hand-selected African Padauk. Padauk is a moderately heavy, strong and stiff wood with exceptional stability. It is valued for its toughness and beautiful color which darkens over time to a dark reddish-brown. John selected Padauk as symbolic of the toughness, strength and stability required of WASP pilots.

2016年5月30日 · In March of 2010 the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal. I was honored to be in attendance for the medal ceremony and for a funeral at Arlington for one of the fallen WASP that followed.

2010年12月31日 · Fernandez, F. & Sarmiento-M., C.E. (2002) A new species of Olixon Cameron and two new records of Rhopalosomatidae (Hymenoptera) from Colombia.

While much has been learned regarding the phylogeny and evolution of cynipoid wasps, clearly illustrated diagnostic tools and identification keys have remained stagnant. So too, where keys …

2019年9月26日 · Potter Wasps use mud to form little brood cells shaped like "urns" or "pots" that protect their larvae until they are ready to spring forth into the world. Habitat: You can find their handiwork stuck to leaves, twigs, walls, lighting fixtures, you name it! With a keen eye, you can spot them about anywhere.

Urn models have been much more widely used for modelling host-parasitoid systems than in other topics of ecology. We therefore used the biological con-text and formalism of parasitism by parasitic wasps, as the results obtained with this system can easily be extended to other ecological and evolutionary contexts.