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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Aulacid, Ensign, and Gasteruptiid Wasps (Evanioidea) » Ensign Wasps (Evaniidae) » Evania » Blue-eyed Ensign Wasp (Evania appendigaster)
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Ensign Wasp - Evania appendigaster
Copyright © 2013 Robert Lord Zimlich

Ensign Wasp - Evania appendigaster
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
June 4, 2013
[b]UPDATE[/B\: Adds June datapoint for Alabama
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 4 June, 2013 - 11:54pm
Last updated 21 July, 2016 - 3:00pm

Evania appendigaster
Moved from ID Request.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 5 June, 2013 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

Ensign wasp (D)…
These wasps are parasitic on cockroach eggs. They are not mimics.

See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 5 June, 2013 - 12:03am login or register to post comments

 
Ahhh ...
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 5 June, 2013 - 12:06am login or register to post comments

 
So how does it like its eggs, CB?
Over easy?
… Ron Hemberger, 5 June, 2013 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

 
Hard boiled
How did you do on my multiple choice test?
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 5 June, 2013 - 3:18am login or register to post comments

 
I'd have said D
If it turned out to be a wasp mimic, would it prefer mimic eggs? There are vegan versions available.
… Ron Hemberger, 5 June, 2013 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

 
Do I call you Lord Zimlich ...
... or just Bob? I've laid awake at nights just wondering about the issue.

Cheers,
Don
… William Donald Newton, 5 June, 2013 - 7:56am login or register to post comments

 
Actually ..
My friends call me Crazy Bob, hence Ron Hemberger addressing me "CB"
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 27 April, 2015 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

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