Sighting 4139861
3 Unidentified Bembix sand wasp at Hackett, ACT
Identification history
| Bembix sp. (genus) | 8 Feb 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Bembix sp. (genus) | 30 Dec 2018 | TimL |
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User's notes
Thanks to Marcus Leach for the initial sighting. The Sand wasp caught the fly in flight and then landed inside an adjacent bush to kill it. The sequence shows the fly being killed over a 1 minute period before the Sand wasp flew away with the fly.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.106857-35.273979
- Maps ANBG
- Places Hackett, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 23 Dec 2018 12:30 PM Recorded on
- TimL Recorded by
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Bembix sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Unidentified Bembix sand wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 985.65m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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