Sighting 4366491
Isodontia sp. (genus)
Unidentified Grass-carrying wasp at Hackett, ACT
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| Isodontia sp. (genus) | MichaelBedingfield | 16 Jan 2021 | |
| Isodontia sp. (genus) | waltraud | 11 Jan 2021 |
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Closing nest.
5 comments
15 Jan 2021
Sorry argybee, I don't understand your comment: is it a request? do you need more info?
15 Jan 2021
No thanks that's plenty. I've been trying to find something that was doing this weird thing with grass for a year or so now. Your genus gave the key.
15 Jan 2021
A pleasure.
They are wonderful. I like the grass flying through my garden. They hunt crickets for their brood and feed on nectar for their own fuel.
If you have a bee/wasp hotel: the new emerging bees and wasps including Isodontia will be learning the place where they are born, will perform a learning flight before their first trip and females will come back to inspect potential nest sites, so you would need to extend the hotel complex.
They are wonderful. I like the grass flying through my garden. They hunt crickets for their brood and feed on nectar for their own fuel.
If you have a bee/wasp hotel: the new emerging bees and wasps including Isodontia will be learning the place where they are born, will perform a learning flight before their first trip and females will come back to inspect potential nest sites, so you would need to extend the hotel complex.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.165908-35.247039
- Altitude 621.3m
- Places Hackett, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 11 Jan 2021 06:03 PM Recorded on
- waltraud Recorded by
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Female Gender
- Nest building Breeding behaviour
Collections
- waltraud Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Isodontia sp. (genus) Sand or digger wasps (Crabronidae & Sphecidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects
Species information
- Isodontia sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Unidentified Grass-carrying wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 811m Recorded at altitude
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