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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Gold-tailed Ruby Wasp

Chrysis fulgida

About

A dazzling metallic wasp with a bright green head and thorax and a golden-red abdomen. It is a brood parasite of potter wasps and mason wasps.

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Did You Know?

Its armoured exoskeleton is so tough that host wasps cannot sting through it.