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The solitary wasp, Sphex, nearing her time of eggs, travels aloft with a single theory about caterpillars.

What about the tarantula hawk, a solitary wasp, whose sting is far more painful than that of a honeybee but leaves no lasting damage at all?

Seeing this flamboyant solitary wasp, whose venom helped keep it alive on earth many millions of years before humans first appeared, the beauty of the sting was self-evident: not for the pain it causes, but for the life it sustains.

A solitary wasp paralyzes its prey and lays an egg on it to provide for its offspring.

But some take them quite seriously, and no one, even in a Woody Allen movie, is more tragically affected than the male solitary wasp.