Favoritos de headsoup
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alisonpearsonDescrição
At the white night lights set up to attract moths. Rainforest Patch.
Female. Body 12mm long
Ovipositor 9mm long
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Smicromorpha doddiObservador
alisonpearsonDescrição
At the white night lights set up to attract moths. Rainforest Patch.
6m long.
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nellsgrossDescrição
About 1cm long .Caught in the shade house and released .This is the second one of these Ive caught unless its the same one .@headsoup
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alisonpearsonDescrição
At the white night lights set up to attract moths. Rainforest Patch.
10mm body 4mm ovipositor
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headsoupDescrição
I collected this specimen, more photos to come.
Helconinae?
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Tribo CryptiniObservador
triplettDescrição
Two wasps ovipositing into a bundle of stuck together leaves
presumably containing a lepidopteran pupa or pupae. This is on an Acacia Implexa.
The following times refer to wasp 1, on the left, based on a series of photos. Wasp 2, on the right, landed at about
the same time or earlier but left briefly a couple of times. Wasp 1 was in the same position whenever I looked.
11:13:25 wasp 1 lands
11:14:16 wasp 1 ovipositor in position
11:16:37 wasp 1 ovipositor unsheathed
11:25:09 (photo 1 - chosen as it is the best photo showing both wasps)
11:57:39 wasp 1 ovipositor fully inserted for the first time in my photos - wasp 2 not present (photo 2)
12:04:30 wasp 1 still in position
was not watching in this interval during which wasp 1 departed
12 21 59 wasp 2 still ovipositing. I left at this point
So in summary it took wasp 1 somewhere between 51 and 68 minutes to complete oviposition.
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Lissonota macqueeniObservador
dhobernDescrição
Sample from Malaise trap, Aranda, ACT, Australia, 22-29 April 2022
Gauld 1984 comments that Chandra 1976 is too incomplete to use for identifying the Australian Lissonota species, but this one seems so distinctive and completely to match Chandra's description and illustration (which I have attached to this observation).
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Subfamília BanchinaeObservador
roserobinDescrição
Black-headed Orange Parasite Wasp, Stiromesostenus sp., Family Ichneumonidae
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Vespas-de-Darwin (Família Ichneumonidae)Observador
lazDescrição
Unid Wasp
Identified as Ichneumonidae on Bowerbird by Ken Walker
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donnamareetomkinsonDescrição
Collected parasitized Blue Triangle Butterfly larvae from in my garden and this is the wasp which hatched out.
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nomennudumDescrição
Length (head to distal apex of wings) ca. 7-9 mm long.
One individual seen.
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Vespas-de-Darwin (Família Ichneumonidae)Observador
debtaylor142Descrição
A difficult wasp to get a photo of as it was very active and did not stop moving rapidly backwards and forwards across a tree trunk.
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Palaeorhiza basiluraObservador
philwarbDescrição
This bee is feeding on the spadix of an aroid plant.
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Rhynchium superbumObservador
heath_fnqDescrição
Stuffing paralyzed caterpillar into hole
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Vespas-de-Darwin (Família Ichneumonidae)Observador
nellsgrossDescrição
In the pool pond .
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Tribo EphialtiniObservador
suzieandjimDescrição
In what I think is a Cryptachaea veruculata retreat
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Género PodagrionObservador
dhobernDescrição
Sample from Malaise trap, Aranda, ACT, Australia, 18-25 March 2022
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Vespas-de-Darwin (Família Ichneumonidae)Observador
heidi_dDescrição
Emerged from a cocoon
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Vespas-de-Darwin (Família Ichneumonidae)Observador
headsoupDescrição
Male hanging around after attempting to mate with female (competing with multiple other males). Here's video of the attempted mating by the males:
https://1drv.ms/v/s!AsPrU9Lf-j3ehKBC_OcILye1hoPc_Q?e=zJqtqs
@reiner do you know any inat wasp specialists that might find the video useful? It's unfortunately got horrible background noise from a neighbour's machinery, but shows the mating frenzy going on.
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Género YezoceryxObservador
philwarbDescrição
The head and thorax resemble more aggressive, stinging wasps in the Vespidae family. Presumably this is a form of Batesian mimicry to deter potential predators. This is a strategy seen in the sub-family Metopiinae so this may give a clue as to an ID.
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Tribo AtrophiniObservador
donnamareetomkinsonDescrição
size 1 and a half cm overall
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Abispa ephippiumObservador
karenretraDescrição
Intriguing to watch this large wasp excavate the caterpillar from between two leaves, first cutting the leaves, then pulling the caterpillar, stinging it and eventually flying off with it.
