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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Aulacid, Ensign, and Gasteruptiid Wasps (Evanioidea) » Carrot Wasps (Gasteruptiidae) » Gasteruption
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Long, slender wasp on buckwheat - Gasteruption - female
Copyright © 2009 Ron Hemberger

Long, slender wasp on buckwheat - Gasteruption - Female
Nix Nature Center, Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, USA
June 18, 2009
Looks like a wisp of black thread in the air, almost impossible to see were it not over white flowers

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Long, slender wasp on buckwheat - Gasteruption - female Long, slender wasp on buckwheat - Gasteruption - female Long, slender wasp on buckwheat - Gasteruption - female
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 19 June, 2009 - 12:24pm

Aren't these guys fantastic?
For a second there, I thought you had somehow managed to crack my computer and post some of my photos -- I swear I have images of what must be the same species, also a female, and also nectaring at buckwheat. (As usual though, I never got around to posting them. Glad you did!) In my time observing this wasp, I was quite impressed with its delicate structure...
… Harsi S. Parker, 19 June, 2009 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Something in the way they move.
These are fascinating creatures, and I can't see them well without a camera in front of me. Have observed others at Nix, all low and around buckwheat. First and only other one I shot was at Irvine Park, also on buckwheat but closer to chest level, which made for better shooting.
… Ron Hemberger, 19 June, 2009 - 8:06pm login or register to post comments

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