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Ammophila urnaria feeds on nectar and can often be seen on the flower heads of sorrel or onion. [2] The breeding season is in summer. The female wasp digs a succession of burrows in sandy soil, provisioning each burrow with one or more paralysed caterpillars, lays an egg on the first caterpillar in each and seals the hole.
Female C. fumipennis Male C. Fumipennis. Cerceris fumipennis is distinguished by five conspicuous characteristics: It is large, about the size of common yellow jacket wasps. It has dark smoky, blue/black wings. The wasp's body is predominantly black except for a few yellow markings. It has a conspicuous, single broad creamy yellow abdominal band.
The female wasp lays one or occasionally two eggs on the underside of a nymph of its host, between the third pair of legs. [6] Even if two eggs are laid beneath a nymph, only one adult wasp will result, so T. radiata is a solitary parasitoid. One adult female T. radiata can lay up to 300 eggs in her life.
Podagrion species are only 2-3mm, with the female's ovipositor effectively doubling her length. [3] The most distinct characteristic of this tiny wasp is the enlarged, clawed femur. Together with the tibia, this structure bears a striking resemblance to the raptorial forelegs of the mantis the wasp parasitizes.
The body of a female is c. 2 inches (50 mm) long, with an ovipositor c. 4 inches (100 mm) long. Females of the parasitoid wasp Neoneurus vesculus ovipositing in workers of the ant Formica cunicularia. Parasitized white cabbage larvae showing wasp larvae exiting its body, spinning cocoons. Playback at double speed.
The sirex woodwasp has a sturdy, cylindrical body without a waist, but with a pointed abdomen.The female body is 15–36 mm (5 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in), and the male is 9–32 mm (3 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long.
Winged female and wingless male. Blastophaga psenes is a wasp species in the genus Blastophaga. It pollinates the common fig Ficus carica and the closely related Ficus palmata. [3] These wasps breed in figs without the need for a colony or nest, and the adults live for only a few days or weeks. [4]
Entypus fulvicornis has been observed hunting wolf spiders of the genus Hogna in Cape May County, New Jersey and the wolf spider Schizocosa avida in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the latter case the female wasp was walking backwards across a lawn with a male spider held in the mandibles by the base of its left foreleg or pedipalp. [6]