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Cuckoo wasp

Family Chrysididae

Description:

This little cuckoo wasp was thoroughly inspecting a potter wasp's nest. The mother wasp was very uneasy, and run over the bee until this one got away. Cuckoo wasps are parasitoid or kleptoparasitic wasps. Members of the subfamily Chrysidinae, like this one, are generally kleptoparasites, laying their eggs in host nests, where their larvae consume the host egg or larva while it is still young, then the food provided by the host for its own juvenile. They are typically associated with solitary bee and wasp species, like the potter wasp in this spotting.

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2 Comments

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 8 years ago

Done, Ava, The reason I didn't do it before is because that nest was featured previously: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/165...

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 8 years ago

Please consider adding this spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082...

Sergio Monteiro
Spotted by
Sergio Monteiro

Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Spotted on Jun 11, 2015
Submitted on Jun 11, 2015

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