A Beautiful Orange Wasp
Last night, I found this beautiful orange wasp with it's contrasting electric blue eyes. It belongs to the family Ichneumonidae which are parisitoids of caterpillars. This one appears to be a male as it has no obvious ovipositor.
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Here he is staring right into my camera.
This lateral view show how it has it's metasoma (posteria end) is raised into the air. It is likely releasing pheremones to call any females that are in the area.
This last shot gives a better idea of the length of it's antennae.
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wow really nice post and photos are amazing. Congrats
Thanks very much.
beautiful snaps ....
background editing is also fabulous...
Thanks. The backgrounds are not edited. The second shot looks like it is but it just sitting on some perspex which is relfecting some old wood.
Wow, that's a really cool looking insect, nice profile shot!
Thanks. You may have noticed I love insects :-)