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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Blue-black Spider Wasp

Anoplius viaticus

About

A dark metallic blue spider wasp with orange-red abdominal bands. It hunts wolf spiders on sandy heathlands and dunes across Europe.

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Did You Know?

It is one of the first solitary wasps to appear each spring in northern Europe, sometimes flying as early as March.