Steel Blue Cricket Hunter. Unlike yellow jackets and other social wasps these solitary wasps are not aggressive. Females mass provision several serial cells each containing from 2 to 9 nymphs or adults of gryllus pennsylvanicus prey are transported on the ground venter up with the wasp s mandibles grasping the antennae of the cricket.
Chlorion cyaneum which occurs together with c. Unlike yellow jackets and other social wasps these solitary wasps are not aggressive. Dear akizme this sure looks to us like a purplish blue cricket hunter chlorion cyaneum.
Steel blue cricket hunter chlorion aerarium thread waisted wasp family sphecidae description a medium sized wasp about an inch long 25 mm black with iridescent blue overtones on the body and wings.
Nests are provisioned with cockroaches. Nests are provisioned with cockroaches. Species aerarium steel blue cricket hunter synonyms and other taxonomic changes. I had taken.
