Fly Chaser - _TNY_7612
The returns were poor when I visited the Gullringskärret nature reserve near my home in Västerhaninge south of Stockholm, Sweden in mid-August (of 2020).
This one however stayed long enough for me to shoot. It is a field digger wasp (Mellinus arvensis), a species which hunts flies and bury them in a burrow as provisions for the larvae which emerges from the egg the wasp lays on the fly in there.
Fly Chaser - _TNY_7612
The returns were poor when I visited the Gullringskärret nature reserve near my home in Västerhaninge south of Stockholm, Sweden in mid-August (of 2020).
This one however stayed long enough for me to shoot. It is a field digger wasp (Mellinus arvensis), a species which hunts flies and bury them in a burrow as provisions for the larvae which emerges from the egg the wasp lays on the fly in there.