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Cerceris halone and Curculio prey - Cerceris halone - female
Copyright © 2007 Dick Walton

Cerceris halone and Curculio prey - Cerceris halone - Female
Carlisle, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 2, 2007
Watched this wasp bring prey to her burrow 3 times in two hours. Prey seems
to be a leafhopper. Correction - prey is Curculio!

Images from video - see:
Natural History Services - Solitary Wasps
Contributed by Dick Walton on 2 September, 2007 - 2:45pm
Last updated 12 February, 2009 - 8:08am

Moved
Moved from Cerceris.
… Dick Walton, 6 February, 2009 - 10:37am

wasp
Cerceris species... prey looks like a weevil of some sort.
… edward trammel, 2 September, 2007 - 7:27pm

 
Cerceris
Edward:

Thanks for the correction. Cerceris (halone?) looks close? I looked more closely at video images of prey and I believe it is a weevil.
… Dick Walton, 2 September, 2007 - 9:50pm

 
Cerceris
i am afraid i am still rather bad at determining many wasps to species, and this genus is pretty big... i think something like 80 plus species. perhaps someone will be able to narrow it down though, it is always nice to find them with prey, seems i never do, but it should help quite a bit.
… edward trammel, 3 September, 2007 - 1:36am

 
Cerceris halone - confirmed by M. Buck
Images from video - see:
Natural History Services - Solitary Wasps
… Dick Walton, 14 November, 2007 - 2:00pm

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