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Ruby Tailed Wasp

Lackford Lakes, Suffolk

Chrysis ignita, also known as the ruby-tailed wasp, is a species of cuckoo wasps. Cuckoo wasps are kleptoparasites – they lay their eggs in the nests of other wasp species and their young consume the eggs or larva of the host wasp for sustenance

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Uploaded on July 9, 2017
Taken on July 8, 2017