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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Fire-tailed Cuckoo Wasp

Chrysis viridula

About

A metallic green cuckoo wasp with a distinctive red-gold abdomen tipped with four small teeth. It parasitizes the nests of cavity-nesting solitary wasps.

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Did You Know?

The number of teeth on the tip of the abdomen is a key feature used to identify different cuckoo wasp species.