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Lissopimpla excelsa
Wasp with all red body parts; blue tinted wings; very long antennae; ovipositor about 15mm long; overall about 50mm long including antennae.
Resting in leaves of a Solanaceae in a small suburban nature reserve.
A wasp that looks like a red grasshopper.
This one has a fascinating story about orchids mimicking the wasp to attract males as pollenaters. Yours is female.
I saw this one at Churchill NP. You may remember that day.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/157...
Spotted on Nov 4, 2013
Submitted on Nov 20, 2013
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