Smooth flower wasp at Crackenback, NSW
Identification history
| Thynninae (subfamily) | 29 Oct 2024 | SimoneC | ||
| Thynninae (subfamily) | 23 Oct 2024 | PaperbarkNativeBees |
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User's notes
Male wasp landed on the grass with female wasp attached to his abdomen. She remained attached for several minutes as he walked around, and it kind of looked like she might have been feeding from his abdomen (as documented in Life in A Southern Forest - https://southernforestlife.net/happenings/2020/10/flower-wasps). He bubbled nectar while she was attached. He then flew off, leaving her to walk off on the ground. I also have a video of their behaviour, but it was too large of a file to attach here.
1 comment
PaperbarkNativeBees
wrote:
31 Oct 2024
Thanks for the ID @SimoneC . It was really interesting to watch them!
Location information
- Coordinates 148.451403-36.446515
- Places Crackenback, NSW
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- 9 Oct 2024 02:59 PM Recorded on
- PaperbarkNativeBees Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Flower wasps (Scoliidae & Tiphiidae) PaperbarkNativeBees
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Mixed Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Thynninae (subfamily) Scientific name
- Smooth flower wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1273.4m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
- External link More information
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- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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