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Chalcid Wasp - Leucospis affinis - female
Copyright © 2009 Phil Huntley-Franck

Chalcid Wasp - Leucospis affinis - Female
Elkton, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
July 16, 2009
Size: approx 10mm

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Contributed by Phil Huntley-Franck on 16 July, 2009 - 10:28pm
Last updated 16 June, 2021 - 2:18am

Moved
Moved from Leucospis affinis.
… Jonathan Hoskins, 16 June, 2021 - 2:18am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Leucospis.
… v belov, 20 May, 2011 - 9:07am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Matthias Buck, 17 July, 2009 - 4:40pm login or register to post comments

Here it looks like
she's about to move the ovipositor into action, from the slung-over-the-shoulder position. However, from these photos it isn't clear to me whether she actually oviposited. Though I've never observed it, there are accounts describing a drilling movement into the wood (here not necessary, but was this an active bee nest?). One description of Leucospis affinis ovipositing, is in Graenicher, S. On the Habits and Life-History of Leucospis affinis (Say). A Parasite of Bees. Bull. of the Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol.4, No.4, 1906.
Graenicher includes a brief reference to the European Leucospis gigas, which has to "drive its ovipositor through the hard cement comprising the walls of the nest of the mason-bees..."
… Hartmut Wisch, 17 July, 2009 - 12:34am login or register to post comments

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