Blue Dog Images
Ruby Tailed Wasp
This is perhaps my favourite ever photo of a Ruby Tailed Wasp.
This I believe is Chrysis ignita and is found across the UK from April through to September.
Being barely 10mm in length, they are difficult to spot. You can often see them running restlessly over walls and tree trunks, constantly using their downward-curving antennae to pick up the scent of their host insect. As a parasite they require another species for part of their life cycle, Chrysis ignita mainly parasitizes mason bees and other solitary bees.
Norfolk
July 2019
Ruby Tailed Wasp
This is perhaps my favourite ever photo of a Ruby Tailed Wasp.
This I believe is Chrysis ignita and is found across the UK from April through to September.
Being barely 10mm in length, they are difficult to spot. You can often see them running restlessly over walls and tree trunks, constantly using their downward-curving antennae to pick up the scent of their host insect. As a parasite they require another species for part of their life cycle, Chrysis ignita mainly parasitizes mason bees and other solitary bees.
Norfolk
July 2019