Tachytes amazonus - Weld County, CO - August 2015
Photographed at Crow Valley. Thanks to Bob Biagi of BugGuide for making the ID. Apparently, this species ranges across much of the US south well into South America... yet there were no photos on the internet and no records in BugGuide until Bob Biagi ID'd one that I'd photographed near Lamar in July 2014. So, this is record number 2. Weird that there aren't many more.
Tachytes are a genus in the family Crabroninae, which are called square-headed wasps. The word Tachytes means rapid or speed. Apparently they lay their eggs in grasshoppers and katydids and the adults feed on nectar
Tachytes amazonus - Weld County, CO - August 2015
Photographed at Crow Valley. Thanks to Bob Biagi of BugGuide for making the ID. Apparently, this species ranges across much of the US south well into South America... yet there were no photos on the internet and no records in BugGuide until Bob Biagi ID'd one that I'd photographed near Lamar in July 2014. So, this is record number 2. Weird that there aren't many more.
Tachytes are a genus in the family Crabroninae, which are called square-headed wasps. The word Tachytes means rapid or speed. Apparently they lay their eggs in grasshoppers and katydids and the adults feed on nectar