Parasitic Wasp (Gasteruption jaculator)

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 09, 2007

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nmillar Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Jul 12, 2007

Today is the 12th of July in Canada, a muggy, damp day and my daughter and I spotted what we think must be one of these guys clinging to a stone wall like the one in your photo. I wish I had a camera with me. Our fellow has a yellow and brown body, which prompted me to look for him under the wasp heading - and lo and behold, there he was. I want to learn more - surely they don't live their entire life cycle like this!

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 12, 2007

I found some good articles on these when I placed it in the ID forum as we had no family for it, I think it was sunning itself as they live on a certian type of wild flower.

http://popgen.unimaas.nl/~jlindsey/commanster/Insects/Bees/Gasteruptionidae.html

http://www.tolweb.org/Gasteruptiinae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasteruptiidae

I am having a fantastic time taking pics of bugs in my garden, of course it takes a lot of time to download and sort etc, then to ID them. The rewards of having a garden full of plants suitable for bugs are far beyond what I had started out to do. That was to just plant up the garden with everything I have grown or collected and like, many species included which insects need and prefer. I don't use any fertilisers or sprays, just my own compost, and look what I am getting!

If you look at my home page you will see others I have put in BugFiles, many more to go yet! Each day I find more than one new bug, and I am finding that the cycle of nature is bringing them all. If I have one bug, I find it often on the unimaas site and then find their food or parasite at the bottom of the page, which I also have! They tend to turn up at the same time, it's so interesting!

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