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Wondering what sphecina wasp this is. It has white marking on the abdomen. Thank you!
Sandy ground
The fly I have included, in the photos, is parasitic. It follows the sphecina and deposits eggs in its burrow, just after the prey has been pulled inside.
Spotted on Jan 19, 2015
Submitted on Jan 19, 2015
25 Comments (1–25)
Great spotting Patrick... Like wrought iron sculpture! and congrats...
Thanks for the kind comments AntónioGinjaGinja. Will take your advice.
Great spotting Patrick,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing.Please consider adding this spotting to the 2015 Best Wildlife photo mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1184...
The fly does hover dead still, for short periods. This was the only clear photo, from a burst of five frames.
All the photos have been cropped.
I have other photos of the fly, male and female. I will post them on Noah.
Still a very interesting fly. To my eye it seems to have characteristics of a few families. Does it hover dead still like the photo suggests?
I have changed the notes and deleted the incorrect naming of the fly.
Thanks again for your help.
Oops!
Thank you for checking up on me. Much appreciated :)
It looks like Trilineata exists in the Americas.
I will have to do some better research, and find out what this tiny fly is.
Would it be a Senotainia?
Re the question about getting close.
Late afternoon and early mornings, these wasps can be approached with ease
Congrats Pat on the SOTW
The fly added is a superb pic but web images for you name don't match and that species is not recorded in Australia ?? .
Nice images!!
I think image 5 is something else. Sorry if somebody else already brought it up :)
How did you get so close?
Go Patrick congrats on SOTW
Wow!!
Thank you all for the kind comments and encouragement.
A big Thank You to the Project Noah team :-)
Congratulations on the SOTW Patrick. Great set of images
Way to go Patrick....congrats on SOTD!
Wow! Congrats Patrick!
Excellent! Congrats on SOTD!
EJEMPLARES MARAVILLOSAS
Patrick, welcome aboard and congratulations for having this submission chosen as our Spotting of the Week! Each week, our Rangers select a great spotting that deserves to be highlighted. This week, your wonderful wasps were the chosen ones! Congrats again and we're looking forward to seeing many more wonderful submissions from you.
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Thank you Maria dB.
This is super - welcome to Project Noah!
Your spotting has been nominated for the Spotting of the Week. The winner will be chosen by the Project Noah Rangers based on a combination of factors including: uniqueness of the shot, status of the organism (for example, rare or endangered), quality of the information provided in the habitat and description sections. There is a subjective element, of course; the spotting with the highest number of Ranger votes is chosen. Congratulations on being nominated!
Thanks for the kind words. And yes Mark, you have the correct ID
Great photos!
..and Dunderoz :)
Excellent shots. (Pat on Flickr?)