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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Thread-waisted Wasp

Ammophila sabulosa

About

An elegant wasp with an extremely narrow petiole and red-banded abdomen. It hunts caterpillars and carries them clasped beneath its body to sandy burrows.

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Did You Know?

It uses a small pebble as a tool to tamp down the sand plug sealing its burrow, one of the earliest documented cases of tool use in insects.