Sunday, August 15, 2021

Annual Visit to Bee-Wolf Wasp Site, Sandy

We are probably past the peak time for the Bee-wolf Wasps but there were still a fair number around. I was very pleased to find the spider-hunting wasp Episyron rufipes dragging its prey a considerable distance before leaving it for a couple of hours while the tunnel was excavated. Lots of Astata boops wasps, one with a shieldbug - looks like the 4th instar of the Gorse Shieldbug. A couple of Ammophila sabulosa but not with their caterpillar prey. Cast completed by a Sarcophaga fly, Dasypoda hirtipes and ?Field Grasshopper

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