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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Parnopes Cuckoo Wasp

Parnopes grandior

Near Threatened

About

A large and robust cuckoo wasp with a metallic green thorax and brilliant red abdomen. It exclusively parasitizes beewolf wasps in sandy habitats.

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Did You Know?

It is entirely dependent on beewolf wasps for reproduction, so its populations decline wherever beewolves disappear.