Radumeris tasmaniensis (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp)Female Male
Images and Author Dianne Bickers ◦
💛💛Look at this fluffy wasp💛💛It’s appropriately named the Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp💛💛As adults they are nectar-eaters and pollinators💛💛This pretty one is a male💛💛After mating, the female digs into the ground in search of a scarab beetle larva “curl grub” where she will sting and paralyse the larva and lay an egg💛💛Once the wasp larva hatches the beetle larva will become its food💛💛The wasp larva will eat & grow, then pupate and emerge from the ground as an adult wasp💛💛
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Radumeris tasmaniensis (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp)Female Male
WaspsWasps Index Australian Large Wasps Australian Mud Nest Wasps Mud Wasp Velvet Ants Abispa ephippium Acarozumia amaliae Aulacidae Australodynerus Bembix Bembicinae Bethylidae Blue Hairy Flower Wasp Braconidae Chrysididae Cryptocheilus Delta latreillei (Potter Wasp) Delta philantes Eumeninae Euodynerus aspra Ferreola handschini (Orange-collared Spider Wasp) Flower Wasps Gasteruptiid Wasp Hairy Flower Wasps Isodontia (Grass-carrying Wasp) Lissopimpla excelsa (Orchid Dupe Wasp) Mutillidae Orange Wasps Paralastor sp. Pseudabispa bicolor ssp. nigrocinctoides Radumeris radula (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) Radumeris tasmaniensis (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) Rhynchium superbum Sceliphron formosum (Vase-cell Mud-dauber Wasp) Sceliphron laetum Sphex Thynnid Wasps Tiphiidae Torymus Yellow and Black Wasp
InsectsBees Beetles Blattodea Butterflies Coleoptera Cicada Crabronidae Diptera Dragonflies & Damselflies Formicidae Hemiptera Heteroptera Moths Neuroptera Orthoptera Orthopteroid Processionary Caterpillar Stink Bugs, Shield Bugs and Allies Wasps Water Scorpion (Laccotrephes tristis) Witchetty Grub
