I use caps on WASP, caus this is one big momma! A little over 2.5cm, a little over an inch long.
Click on a photo & she will get larger.
Quite a set of choppers!
Cool looking eyes!
She looks bigger in person and indoors on the table crawling & flying around : -)
Family Scoliidae (Scoliid Wasps)
Subfamily Campsomerinae
Genus Campsomeris
Common name: Scarab-hunter Wasp
These dig down & lay eggs on beetle larvae. They eat flower nectar as adults.
These dig down & lay eggs on beetle larvae. They eat flower nectar as adults.
Found on a flower near Loma Linda Ca. Where I will be sucking up protons for the next 2 months.
