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ShinyBee/Wasp
Copyright © 2018 chaffeemonell

ShinyBee/Wasp
Newburyport/Joppa Flats Education Center, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 20, 2018
Size: about 1 cm
Found this beautiful specimen hanging out on a split rail fence. only occasionally moving. Not sure what it was doing there. Cuckoo Wasp, Carpenter Bee, and Sweat Bee all came to mind. Blunt abdomen hinted at bee, but long antenna hinted at wasp, so I wasn't sure where to start looking. I left a little more of the substrate in view to show where it was.
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Contributed by chaffeemonell on 21 September, 2018 - 10:42am
Last updated 16 October, 2018 - 1:43pm

Moved
Moved from Chrysidinae.
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cuckoo wasp
notice how highly textured the exoskeleton is
… Steve Scholnick, 21 September, 2018 - 10:48am login or register to post comments

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