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@rogueinkglitch submitted: Here I am again with more bugs from my family’s native plant garden here in Ohio!

Some butterflies caught in an intimate moment, a big ol’ bee, some beetles, and a wasp of some kind? I would love IDs for the beetles and wasp!

Looks like lots of nice friends are attracted to this garden! The beetles are wedge-shaped beetles, Macrosiagon limbata. The wasp is a thread-waisted wasp in the family Sphecidae, but I couldn't say which species. There are a few that look very similar.

#bugs #submission #animals #insects #bee #beetle #congregation #wedge shaped beetle #Ripiphoridae #wasp #butterfly #Pieris #garden white #Sphecidae #thread waisted wasp

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Ripiphorus sp. (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae)

Rachicerus sp. (Diptera: Xylophagidae)

#Ripiphoridae #Xylophagidae #coleoptera #diptera

#1347 - Fam. Ripiphoridae - Wedge-shaped Beetle

Photos by Sam Mayhew in very degraded horse paddocks in Burbank, QLD. The anatomy made me suspect the Wedge-shaped Beetles, and according to one of our local entomology experts, Andras Szito, I was right. Unfortunately, as he says -

“There is no-one specialised in Ripiphorids in Australia and the last revision on a subfamily (out of 5) published in 1955 - if I remember correctly. “

Further -

“ Most of the Ripiphorid beetles are parasites of various wasps. Adult females laying their eggs on flowers and the emerging young larva will grab a wasp's leg and the wasp will take it to her nest. In the nest the wedge-shape beetle larva will feed on the wasp's larva.

#ripiphoridae #wedge-shaped beetle #australian beetle #brood parasite #parasitic beetle

Bug of the Day

I have to admit, when this landed on one of my colleagues while we were out hunting for biosurveillance wasps, I saw the feathery antennae and wings and thought “Sawfly!” I’m going to blame my old-person eyesight on this one, because once I got the photos up on my computer screen, I saw that this odd-looking thing had elytra (those orange wing cover thingies), albeit short ones, and kind of resembled some wedge-shaped beetles I had photographed years ago.

Indeed, this turned out to be another wedge-shaped beetle, genus Ripiphorus. A funky-looking beetle with some non-standard parts, for sure. Not sure I can get to species on this one, but I did post the photo to BugGuide just in case an expert can weigh in...

#beetle #wedge-shaped beetle #Ripiphoridae #Ripiphorus #Coleoptera #insect