Unidentified braconid wasp at Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
Identification history
| Braconidae (family) | 6 Feb 2024 | SimoneC | ||
| Unidentified | 4 Feb 2024 | LisaH |
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User's notes
I think this wasp was laying eggs, by the curving of its abdomen on a couple of spots on the flower?
1 comment
SimoneC
wrote:
6 Feb 2024
Braconidae parasitise insects usually laying eggs in their larvae but sometimes in their eggs, so maybe there were some eggs there
Location information
- Coordinates 149.094191-35.328311
- Maps Hughes Grassy Woodland Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 4 Feb 2024 05:46 PM Recorded on
- LisaH Recorded by
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Insects Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Parasitic wasps (numerous families) LisaH Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Daisy Associated Insect
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
- Egg laying Breeding behaviour
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Braconidae (family) Scientific name
- Unidentified braconid wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1403.85m 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
- GPS evidence of location
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