Found this critter struggling to get free from a pile of sawdust.
Sony a77v ISO 400 f22 1/60 sec Diff flash hand held
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nice shots,but i dont what it is.tom
You certainly have some freaky (as compared to the rest of the wordl) critters down under. This one looks like a stingerless wasp. Strange since you have so many lethally dangerous things.
Bozsik
Loc: Orangevale, California
It looks like species of Potter Wasp/ Paralastor sp
This appears to be a gravid (pregnant) wasp, looking for a place to deposit her eggs.
Nikonian72 wrote:
This appears to be a gravid (pregnant) wasp, looking for a place to deposit her eggs.
Could it be a solitary wasp that lays her eggs in decaying matter like sawdust?
Thanks everyone. The sawdust was fresh from felling an old
diseased gum tree, it looked like"she"was struggling to get free.
She flew away after cleaning her wings with her hind legs. :-D
gym
Loc: Athens, Georgia
I think it looks a lot like an adult sawfly. But I'm not that familiar with Australian wasps, so it's just a guess.
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