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__________________________________________________________________ Hymenoptera 40 – Mammoth Wasps

 

 

 

 

A black and yellow insect on a flower

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MAMMOTH WASP Colpa sexmaculata (m)

 

A insect on the ground

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MAMMOTH WASP Colpa sexmaculata (m)

 

·         These mammoth wasps Colpa sexmaculata were photographed in the South of France. As may be seen from these images these insects are sexually dimorphic. These scoliids are parasitoids of scarab beetle larvae.

 

 

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