We dig these wasps. 🐝 Did you know that many wasps lay their eggs in the eggs, pupae or bodies of other insects and spiders? Here's a digger wasp (family Sphecidae) we filmed at Casuarina Sands in Canberra digging a hole for its prey. It will sting and paralyse an insect and then drag it into the hole it has dug. Like something out of Alien, it will then lay an egg on or in the other insect's body, which will develop and eat the host as it grows. Dig into the weird world of parasitoid wasps: ht
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Digging away! The great golden sand digger wasp is easily one of the most beautiful solitary wasps to encounter on a morning walk! Bright contrasting colors, accompanying an active and aware insect are hard to beat! These wasps hunt prey before paralyzing it to drag deep underground. Once in the ground, these wasps will lay their eggs on the unlucky insects and their larvae will soon hatch to feast on a plentiful harvest. These wasps are not aggressive in the slightest, and will retreat undergro
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