Colorful gold wasp
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Variegated golden wasp ( Chrysis viridula ) |
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| Linnaeus , 1761 |
The golden wasp ( Chrysis viridula ) is a species of the golden wasp family (Chrysididae).
features
The golden wasps grow to be six to nine millimeters long. Her head and the underside of her thorax are blue-green, the upper side and almost the entire abdomen are red-gold in color. Only the tip of the abdomen is blue-green again. The colors of the whole body have a metallic sheen.
Occurrence
The animals can be found on steep surfaces such as sunken paths or walls of old houses. They fly from May to August.
Way of life
The larvae live parasitically on the common chimney wasp ( Odynerus spinipes ). The females dig up already closed nests to lay their eggs on the pupated and spun larva of their host , on which the hatching golden wasp larva then feeds.
literature
- Heiko Bellmann : The New Cosmos Insect Guide. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07682-2
