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16-JUN-2015 Jeanne Dammarell

Cuckoo Wasp

Davenport, Lincoln County, Washington

These wasps (family Chrysididae) lay their eggs in the nests of other bees where the larvae eat the rightful host larvae and then the host food store. They often use sand wasps as host species. I often watch them walk systematically over the leaves of raspberry,rosa rugosa and plum trees feeding on very tiny insects and their honeydew exude.


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