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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Japanese Scoliid Wasp

Megascolia japonica

About

The largest wasp in Japan, females reaching impressive sizes. Dark colored with yellow-orange markings. A solitary wasp that parasitizes rhinoceros beetle larvae in soil.

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Did You Know?

Female scoliid wasps burrow underground to find rhinoceros beetle grubs, sting them to paralyze them, then lay an egg on the immobilized grub.