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Very large metallic blue & black wasp.
Metallic blue. Might be either Chalybion californicum or Chlorion
Found in Violet Cury Nature Preserve, Tampa Florida. Very conspicuous with its ...
About 3/4" to 1" long. Was digging the hole (or trying to cover itself with ...
Large, metallic blue, green, or purple. Not as hairy as the very similar Blue ...
About 28-30+ millimeters in body length, bright metallic blue in color.
Very large, green, female wasp about 1 inch long. It was walking and flying ...
They have Gryllus crickets as their hosts (in the same way cicada killers use ...
Large. About 2" long. Iridescent, dark blue. Fast crawler.
This large beetle has ten bright red lateral stripes. It is remarkably smooth ...
This beetle was about 15mm long, black with thin red linear stripes on its ...
sometimes be difficult to tell apart in the field, especially the males. ...
Blue/purple metallic colored wasp was found dead on the trail. The wings are ...
Roughly 25-28 millimeters in body length, colored as shown in deep metallic ...
An active beetle with several somewhat broken red vittae on each elytron. The ...
