
Flower Wasp - wingless female - Genus Elaphroptera
Flower Wasps are solitary wasps that usually parasitise beetle larvae, most often scarabs. The females are wingless, and climb to the top of grass stems to wait for a male to find them, then cling to him with their massive jaws until they can lock their genetalia together.
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By Calbost Niel
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Uploaded Nov 25, 2022. Captured Nov 25, 2022 12:25 in 200W-201W Great Western Hwy, Hazelbrook NSW 2779, Australia.
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