Steel Blue Cricket Hunter Sting. Species aerarium steel blue cricket hunter synonyms and other taxonomic changes. They move with quick nervous actions in sandy and bare soil areas flying readily when approached.
Watch for the females scouring the ground and peering into nooks and crannies in search of crickets. The steel blue cricket hunter is so named because the solitary females hunt crickets of the family gryllidae as prey. The common name would appear to be a bit misleading because instead of crickets bugguide indicates.
Steel blue cricket hunters are bluish black slender wasps with transparent dark blue wings.
It is similar in appearance and can be confused with a family member the blue mud dauber also present in this area. Aerarium in saz and stx can be distinguished as follows. Chlorion aerarium patton 1879. Adult cricket hunters feed on flower nectar.
