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Cuckoo Wasp (Family Chrysididae), taken May 5, 2025, in Georgia, US

I fear my photography career has peaked with this one. I don't think I've ever seen anything so cute in my life. This little lady was simply just sleeping on the stem of a leaf, completely unaware of the fact that I was frantically taking as many pictures of her as possible. In the end, she put out a single antenna to sense me better but never ended up moving, so I'd say my attempt to not disturb her was successful! I had no idea cuckoos slept like this—it's adorable!!! One billion more, please!!

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Yesterday, I was talking to my friend about Pokemon and their typing, which led me to ask him what typing he thought I would be if I were one. He said Bug/Rock, then proceeded to say that a rainbow gem wasp would be cool. That suddenly made me think of cuckoo wasps, and how a Chrysidid with body parts made up of gems would be interesting. Keeping in mind that this doesn't look like a pokemon, nor is it drawn in the Ken Sugimori style. Most bug pokemon have 4 legs instead of 6, and I originally drew the wasp with 4 legs, but the entomologist in me felt it just looked wrong, so I added in the middle pair of legs, it looks more complete. I know that Chrysidids technically have 5 tarsomeres, but I reduced the number for the sake of simplification. In conclusion, this was an interesting experiment. I may come back to this idea and try to illustrate an even more accurate concept/depiction while still keeping the gem motif.

#hymenoptera #entomology #insect #wasp #wasps #apocrita #aculeata #Chrysididae #Chrysis #Chrysisignitacomplex #gems #experimentation #cartoon #concept

i found a gorgeous little metallic cuckoo wasp (Chrysis sp.) on the ground yesterday that had lost one of its forewings and couldn’t fly. i set it up in a container with some sticks and leaves and sugar water which it seemed very happy to drink. if it’s Chrysis angolensis like iNat suggests, then it’s introduced in the USA and is a kleptoparasite of mud dauber wasps

#i will probably either keep it until it dies naturally or freeze it #n then put it in my collection #i don’t usually like collecting live insects without a scientific goal but this one will die regardless :(((#.#bugs #insects #wasps #hymenoptera #chrysididae #cuckoo wasps #is this post also partly to show off my nails? maybe

2025 WAUCE BLAST

As the year comes to a close I wish to inundate you all with some of the coolest, prettiest or strangest wasp photos uploaded to iNat this year, inspired by @cathartidae's wauce blasts

Gonatopus and liopterid

Gasteruption and Cameronella

Eumenine and Smicromorpha doddi

Ammophila wrightii and Stilbula

Pelecinus polyturator and Chrysis viridula

Tracheliodes curvitarsis and Oxyscelio

Orasema and Apoica pallens

Scelionids and Feron kingi

Neotriadomerus and Phlebopenes

Euplectromorpha variegata and chalcids

Antron douglasii and Stylaclista

Synergus and Obenbergerella

Elasmosoma and Polistes dominula

Odontophotopsis melicausa and Stizus texanus

Stypiura and Radumeris tasmaniensis

Part 2

Ruby-Tailed Wasp (Hedychrum nobile), family Chrysididae, Scotland

photograph by David Hamilton

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[VIDEOS AND PHOTOS TAKEN: JULY 9TH, 2025 | Video and Image IDs: A video and five photos of a shiny green, blue, and black cuckoo wasp on a greyish brown wooden board, crawling around and taking some time to clean its leg before it flies away in the video /End IDs.]

A beautiful little baby and the largest cuckoo wasp I've seen! Still a small thing, compared to other wasps, though!

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a tiny Cuckoo Wasp, pausing her forage for a quick rest.

I very rarely witness cuckoo wasps at rest, and its even rarer that they allow me to get close, so I am especially pleased with this photo.

Unknown Cuckoo Wasp (family Chrysididae).

#ljsbugblog #bugblr #entomology #macro #insects #hymenoptera #aculeata #wasps #chrysididae #cuckoo wasps #unconfirmed ID

seeing cuckoo wasps recurringly go completely apeshit for sweet yarrow is funny but also heartbreaking. after so many missed opportunities for photos of individuals even more colorful than this, it turns out all i had to do was wave a stinky yellow flower in front of them in order to tame their volatile nature

(June 15th, 2025)

#my pics #bugs #entomology #insects #wasps #cuckoo wasps #hymenoptera #chrysididae #bugblr #yes sweet yarrow is stinky if you've smelled these things and think otherwise begone from my sight

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