This paper wasp was taking refuge from some wild weather - ex tropical cyclone Oswald is bearing down on us. It must be a bugger trying to fly around in a monsoon! Toowong, QLD.
A wasp visits a livestock water trough for a drink on a hot day. Kyogle, NSW.
I found this fire-tailed mud wasp on a crepe myrtle tree. Flowering trees and shrubs attract everything from beetles to wasps, flies and of course many different bees. Kyogle, NSW.