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Sphecid blue wasp
Copyright © 2007 Michel Kleinbaum

Sphecid blue wasp
Salem, Marion County, Oregon, USA
July 23, 2007
Size: 20mm approx
an active wasp, flushed while photographing a Dragonfly, allowing only one shot.
Looks like the Spider Wasp I submitted earlier but larger
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Contributed by Michel Kleinbaum on 24 July, 2007 - 2:36pm
Last updated 5 November, 2007 - 12:42pm

Moved
Moved from Vespoidea.
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 October, 2007 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

Sphecidae.
This is either Chalybion or Chlorion, probably impossible to determine from this image alone. Brightness of metallic blue, and the apparent positioning of the antennae low on the face suggests Chlorion, but it has never been recorded from there (only The Dalles and somewhere near the Idaho border). That would leave Chalybion, a far more common insect.
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 October, 2007 - 3:38pm login or register to post comments

 
blue wasp
thanks again for your help
Michel Kleinbaum
… Michel Kleinbaum, 5 October, 2007 - 6:27pm login or register to post comments

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