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Impossible Waistline - _TNY_9958

The female red-banded sand wasp (Ammophila sabulosa) is one of the hunting wasps that feed their offspring by finding and paralyzing caterpillar which is then buried in a burrow together with its egg and when the larvae hatches, it feeds on the caterpillar.

 

Looking at this one from the side like this, I have to say that that waist really is insanely narrow and can't help wondering what the advantage of it being so extremely narrow could be.

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Uploaded on October 3, 2022
Taken on August 1, 2022