#ruby-tailed wasp

[sandpaperoctopi]

Invertober Day 7: ruby-tailed wasp

[ehrenenglish]

Ruby-tailed Wasp for invertober day 7

[unkn0wnvariable]

Ruby-tailed Wasp

A ruby-tailed wasp feeding from a bramble flower, at Glapthorn Cow Pastures.

[onenicebugperday]

@iceottyy submitted: a lovely female Ruby tailed Wasp (Chrysis fulgida) that I saw in the Netherlands!

This is it...the world's most perfect creature :')

[cptmackerel]

Beautiful!

Today’s bug on the runway is the chrysis ignita, aka…

The Ruby-Tailed Wasp! (Also called the Cuckoo Wasp, and the Emerald Wasp). This fashionable predator can be found all over the UK, and is famous for its iridescent glow. However, these things are not great parents. They have a greatly reduced stinging ability, and will lay their eggs in the nests of solitary bees and wasps. When their larvae hatch, they will either starve or outright kill the other larvae in the nest, usurping the shelter as their own.

[simcardiac-arrested]

i am in some sort of bug hell

[dinoserious]

invertober day 7, ruby tailed wasp! nice colors on this kooky critter

[bug-maniac]

[Image ID: A picture of a bee and a wasp, both labeled. Both are colored yellow and black. Facts are listed about each one in their respective columns.

Bee:

Cute and fuzzy, like a friend

Make honey

Come in pretty colors with different occupations (blue orchard bee, carpenter bee)

Pollinators!

Freeloaders who will come build hives in the walls of your house

Communicate with dancing

According to all known laws of aviatin, honey bees can fly up to 15 mph

Like sweet things

Over 20,000 species--not just honeybees!

Wasp:

Cool and sleek, like a motorcycle

Prey on pests

Come in pretty, iridescent colors (ruby tailed wasp)

Will try to mooch off your drinks (so check your cans!)

Pollinators!

Leave you paper nests that you can sell to collectors

Communicate with smells

Like sweet things

Over 30,000 species--not just [kind I hate]

At the very bottom, in smaller text, is the URL bug-maniac.tumblr.com. /End ID]

NO ANTI-WASP SENTIMENTS ON THIS POST

[dingusdemeanour]

Ruby-tailed wasp (Chrysis ignita)

I've seen several of these funky little guys this summer, and I'm very happy about it. :)

It was an absolute nightmare to get a picture though, they're so tiny and so quick...

(I released them once I'd taken a picture, don't worry. Only caught them because they were stuck inside my house)

[making-your-fave-in-fr]

And again, if OCS can be sended as request.

My architect oc from Subnautica Below Zero. Ni-Ki(Nightmare-King), art credits of this ref to "tetyogni"(discord)

I made Ni-Ki from architect-wa-py's imagination in Flight Rising!

M Bogsneak (Glowing Plague eyes) Blood/Wasp | Ruby/Myrid | Blood/Basic

Scarlet Dinosaur Helmet, Scarlet Dinosaur Shoulder Guard, Scarlet Dinosaur Breastplate, Scarlet Dinosaur Wing Guard, Scarlet Dinosaur Arm Guards, Scarlet Dinosaur Leg Guards, Scarlet Dinosaur Tail Guard, Cinnabar Spine Enhancement, Cinnabar Tail Enhancement, Ceramic Steampunk Wings, Glowing Red Clawtips

[humansbgone]

Some commissions I did a while back for people in the $20 tier over on Patreon! A vegetarian Bagheera kiplingi jumping spider and a hummingbird moth for @vlinesnauce, a copepod and a banana roach for @karltface, and a ruby-tailed wasp for Midgebot.

[darkmetaknightspussy]

it makes me so sad that 1) ppl dont often like wasps and 2) sectonia isnt that popular of a character bc theres so many awesome wasps people could base her design on in fanworks.

Cuckoo wasp, Emerald Cockroach wasp, Potter wasp, Ruby Tailed wasp... the possibilities are endless. imagine

I LOVE WASPS SO MUCHH my iteration of dark taranza is actually heavily inspired by mud daubers and potter wasps :> but fr you are Absolutely right there are so many gorgeous wasps out there that could serve as an excellent basis for sectonia’s design

[unkn0wnvariable]

Feeding Ruby-tailed Wasp

A ruby-tailed wasp eating an aphid amongst the flower buds, in the garden.

[minmos]

below the cut (because there are so many bug pictures) i would like to post. a gallery of WASP DIVERSITY

ruby tailed wasp. it rolls up like a pillbug to protect itself and cannot sting. it lays its eggs in other wasp nests

blue mud dauber. not aggressive, males cannot sting. adults are pollinators, their young eat black widow spiders. It's also blue if you can believe that

pelecinid wasp. cannot sting. this has two population groups - one in the southern us & most of south america that does regular parasitic wasp stuff, and a population in the rest of north america consisting only of females that reproduce asexually.

baeus wasp. this guy is fucking crazy. flightless & preys on spider eggs. and it's small as hell

fairyfly. world's smallest insect. lays eggs in other insects' eggs and only lives a few days.

doddifoenus rex. having trouble finding more information about the species.

chalcura. check out those antennae! preys on ants.

tarantula hawk. even more pretty antennae! one of the largest parasitoid wasps. preys on tarantulas. very docile, but does have one of the most painful recorded stings of all insects - it's beat only by the bullet ant on the schmidt pain index. just don't fuck with it though it's not going to go after you

thread waisted wasp. isnt she cool! one got stuck in my bathroom once.

giant ichneumon wasp. isn't that crazy! unable to sting. preys on one specific other species of wasp (pigeon horntail).

organ pipe mud dauber. described by wikipedia as "exceedingly docile" so you know she knows what's up... and she makes nests out of clay because she's a beautiful little potter. so apparently these guys are haplodiploid, which means that they'll just lay eggs and any unfertilized eggs generate males and fertilized eggs generate females. that's weird.

steel blue cricket hunter. You'll never guess what she hunts.

anyway umm yes. WASPS. theres so many cool wasps out there. Dont let yellow jackets poison wasps for you i promise theyre not all like that ...

[the-bug-bl0g]

RAINBOW COLORFUL BUG

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHBSBWJAHHA

i’ll give you one for a few orders :)

Coleoptera (beetles): The Rainbow Scarab (Phanaeus vindex) is a North American dung beetle that likes to hybridize with Phanaeus difformis (also colorful, but in a different way). We would live a much grosser world without dung beetles, as the Australians learned when cows were brought to the continent. Without dung beetles, dung gets recycled into the soil far slower.

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths): Madagascan Sunset Moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) is from Madagascar (mind blowing). Due to its shape and impressive colors it is much sought after by collectors. The black parts of the wings are actually the only pigmented parts, while the rest is reflected light.

Hemiptera:

take a close look at these guys! (genus Agrosoma) they’re beautiful. they live in central america and the last picture is a nymph (baby bug that doesn’t do metamorphosis)

Orthoptera (crickets, katydids and grasshoppers): rainbow grasshopper (Dactylotum bicolor) is native to the western great plains of north america. sry i don’t really uhhhhh have facts for grasshoppers they’re not as interesting to me as bees and stuff

Hymenoptera (bees wasps and ants): The ruby-tailed wasp (Chrysis ignita) is a cuckoo wasp that lays its eggs inside the nests of a few species of potter wasps. They don’t have a stinger and are found in europe and asia.

[simcardiac-arrested]

youd expect blue to be. yknow. the blue one. nature is weird

well the wasp is specifically called blue-WINGED, and it DOES have blue wings, so. technically accurate