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Cuckoo wasp - Genus Primeuchroeus Making her getaway.<br />
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As the name &lsquo;cuckoo wasps&rsquo; suggests, females lay their eggs in the nests of other insects. Among the most common hosts for cuckoo wasps are the various mud-daubing wasps that build their nests around houses, sheds and other human constructions. This accounts for many finds, people either noticing the brightly coloured wasps hovering about walls as they search for a host nest, or finding them after they&rsquo;ve entered a building and got trapped on the inside of a window pane. Australia,Eamw wasps,Fall,Geotagged,Illaroo,Upload July 2023,cuckoo wasp Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Cuckoo wasp - Genus Primeuchroeus

Making her getaway.

https://museum.wa.gov.au/research/collections/terrestrial-zoology/entomology-insect-collection/entomology-factsheets/cuckoo-wasps

As the name ‘cuckoo wasps’ suggests, females lay their eggs in the nests of other insects. Among the most common hosts for cuckoo wasps are the various mud-daubing wasps that build their nests around houses, sheds and other human constructions. This accounts for many finds, people either noticing the brightly coloured wasps hovering about walls as they search for a host nest, or finding them after they’ve entered a building and got trapped on the inside of a window pane.

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  1. I feel bad for the spider wasps, but this is so cool! Lucky you to have been able to document the entire nest-building process, including parasitized spiders, and now a cuckoo wasp! Well done! Posted 2 years ago
  2. What a shot.... Posted 7 months ago

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Uploaded Jul 28, 2023. Captured Apr 24, 2018 19:35 in 25 Bugong Rd, Illaroo NSW 2540, Australia.
  • Canon EOS 700D
  • f/11.0
  • 1/790s
  • ISO3200
  • 163mm