Flower Wasp vs Abbott's Pine Sawfly

Side-by-side species comparison

Attribute	Flower Wasp	Abbott's Pine Sawfly
Scientific Name	Cerceris rybyensis	Neodiprion abbotii
Order	Hymenoptera	Hymenoptera
Family	Crabronidae	Diprionidae
Size	8-14 mm	6-8 mm
Habitat	Heathland	Forests
Diet	Predators	Omnivores
Regions	Europe	Eastern North America
Conservation	Least Concern	Least Concern

Flower Wasp

A solitary wasp that hunts small mining bees to provision its nest. Nests in sandy soil, often in dense aggregations. Distinguished from other wasps by its hunting specialization.

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Did You Know?

Specializes in hunting mining bees (Andrena), catching them on flowers and carrying them back to its burrow.

Abbott's Pine Sawfly

A pine sawfly whose distinctively marked larvae have black heads and grayish-green bodies with dark stripes. It feeds on hard pines in eastern North America.

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Did You Know?

This species was named after John Abbott, one of the earliest entomological illustrators in North America, who documented it in the early 1800s.