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Chrysididae
Brightly colored wasp. Size is about 10mm. These insects are aptly called Cuckoo wasps because just like a female Cuckoo, these wasps break into other wasp's nest, especially the mud dauber wasp's and lay eggs on the developing larvae. The hatched larvae feed on the now doomed larvae and comes out fully developed.
Spotted near a carpenter bee nest.
Spotted on Sep 5, 2015
Submitted on Sep 5, 2015
8 Comments
Thank you Garcia..
nice lighting.
Thank you James..
Amazing....great shots
@Faith, They don't sting normally unless we try to handle them. Thank you.
Thank you Ashutosh..
How did you get so close up without being stung?your zoom must be really powerful!the wasp looks awesome!
Awesome!