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Diamma bicolor
This 23 mm long metallic blue "ant " with red legs and antennae is actually a female flower wasp. It looked like a short string of shiny beads. When I got close to it, it turned its back to me raising its abdomen, keeping its head low (Pic 2)
Spotted in a suburban back yard
A very active solitary wasp, it moves with jerky movements. The adult wasps feed on flowers but the wingless females are seen on ground searching for tunnelling mole crickets. They paralyse the cricket and eggs are laid on the cricket. When the larvae hatch, they feed on the cricket. Males are smaller and have wings. They are black with white spots as can be seen here in martinl's spotting http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/847... Family Tiphiidae
Spotted on Feb 5, 2014
Submitted on Feb 16, 2014
1 Comment
How did you make it stand still for a shot. Mine keep running so fast.