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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) » Square-headed Wasps (Crabroninae) » Crabronini » Crabronina » Lestica
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Wasps - Lestica - male - female
Copyright © 2015 Jeff Gruber

Wasps - Lestica - Male Female
Spring Green Preserve SNA, Sauk County, Wisconsin, USA
July 19, 2015
Found this struggle going on on upper surface of leaf of low foliage on top of steep bluff prairie. The wasps were struggling to get away I believe. Stink bug seemed to have the female by the front of the face.

Crabronids?

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Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 19 July, 2015 - 7:01pm
Last updated 21 July, 2015 - 8:41am

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… John S. Ascher, 21 July, 2015 - 8:41am login or register to post comments

what a drama... yes, Crabronini something; Lestica?
the adolescent punk sure got a nerve
… v belov, 19 July, 2015 - 7:20pm login or register to post comments

 
duel
I couldn't tell who was trying to drag whom off. Assumed the stink bug had the upper hand. Wonder if there are any Pentatomidae prey records for crabronids.
… Jeff Gruber, 19 July, 2015 - 9:39pm login or register to post comments

 
I'm a little late but
Bicyrtes, and some members of Astatinae hunt Stink Bugs. So actually the victims here are the wasps. I wonder who won, I sure wouldn't want to disturb wasps when they're busy!
… Juan Cepeda Espinosa, 1 April, 2021 - 8:33pm login or register to post comments

Predator…
Stink bug is a Podisus placidus nymph.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 19 July, 2015 - 7:11pm login or register to post comments

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