Male Flower Wasp feeding on Grevillea nectar near Lyndhurst in November. Body length approximately 25mm.
Flower Wasp in Grevillea: Lyndhurst
Spider Hunter Wasp: Copley
Ctenostegus, the Spider Hunter Wasp, hunts and paralyses spiders, digs a burrow in the ground and deposits the spider along with some eggs. The spider (in this case a Beautiful Badge Hunstman) becomes living food for the developing larvae underground.
White-waisted Digger Wasp
Mud wasp nests: Bunyeroo Creek
Mud wasp nests: Barraranna Gorge
Hundreds of evacuated mud wasp nests observed in a cave in the cliff face of Barraranna Gorge, Arkaroola.
Potter Wasp
Christmas Bush with wasp
Bursaria spinosa, also known as Christmas Bush or Sweet Bursaria, in flower with native wasp at Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park.
