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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Crabroninae » Square-headed Wasps (Crabronini) » Crabronina » Ectemnius
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Which wasp, please? - Ectemnius - female
Copyright © 2007 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Which wasp, please? - Ectemnius - Female
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
May 16, 2007
Can you make out what it captured?

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Which wasp, please? - Ectemnius - female Which wasp, please? - Ectemnius - female Which wasp, please? - Ectemnius - female
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 16 May, 2007 - 6:12pm
Last updated 7 September, 2008 - 8:12am

Moved
Moved from Square-headed Wasps.
… Beatriz Moisset, 21 May, 2007 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

Wow!
Crabronid wasp, probably Ectemnius. It is carrying 'most' of a crane fly! These wasps are parasitoids of flies, but this is ridiculous:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 16 May, 2007 - 7:10pm login or register to post comments

 
tribe Crabronina
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… John S. Ascher, 17 May, 2007 - 11:04am login or register to post comments

 
Crabronid
But I could not figure out what the hell it was carrying.
… Herschel Raney, 16 May, 2007 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

 
The victim
is a female crane fly of Nephrotoma ferruginea. - Chen
… Chen Young, 16 May, 2007 - 9:01pm login or register to post comments

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