Blue Cricket Hunter Wasp. 1989 distribution and biology of the sphecine wasps of michigan hymenoptera. This metallic blue colored wasp is sleek and shiny with a skinny waist.
The female hunts a cricket paralyzing it with a sting and then takes it back to her nest in order to have food on hand for when her eggs hatch. Steel blue cricket hunters are large wasps that build their nests in the soil. The wings are dark with iridescence similar to an oil slick.
It is similar in shape and colour to the blue mud dauber chalybion californicum.
What are steel blue cricket hunters. The steel blue cricket hunter has a similar life cycle but provisions its cells in the ground with crickets. The female hunts a cricket paralyzing it with a sting and then takes it back to her nest in order to have food on hand for when her eggs hatch. What are steel blue cricket hunters.
