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Australian vase-cell mud-dauber wasp

Family Sphecidae are a cosmopolitan family of wasps that includes sand wasps, mud daubers and other thread-waisted wasps.

 

Possibly a mud dauber Sceliphron formosum. These wasps paralyse prey and place them within the cell for the larva to eat as it develops.

 

 

20 mm body length.

 

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Uploaded on April 25, 2023
Taken on February 11, 2023