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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) » Larrini » Gastrosericina » Tachytes
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Large wasp stuck in Algae - Tachytes - female
Copyright © 2020 Sara Simpkins

Large wasp stuck in Algae - Tachytes - Female
Hole in the Wall Area Beach, Echo Valley Provincial Park, Saskatchewan, Canada
August 26, 2020
Found this wasp struggling in shallow water covered in green algae in Pasqua Lake just off of the Hole in the Wall beach area. I lifted it out of the water with my hand and put it on the dry sticks a few meters from the water. It let me take several pictures and I left it there to dry and continue to groom itself. Not sure how it got stuck in the water or the thick algae.

Posted it initially on iNaturalist and suggestion there is that it is Subtribe Gastrosericina.

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Contributed by Sara Simpkins on 30 August, 2020 - 12:21pm
Last updated 3 October, 2020 - 10:25am

Moved
Moved from Crabronidae.
… Bob Biagi, 3 October, 2020 - 10:25am login or register to post comments

Female
10 flagellomeres = ♀
6 abdominal segments = ♀
… Bob Biagi, 3 October, 2020 - 10:23am login or register to post comments

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