Blue Flower Wasp at Richardson, ACT
Identification history
| Austroscolia soror | 6 Jan 2025 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 5 Jan 2025 | SMOT |
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User's notes
Large black wasp possibly Sphex pensylvanicus (Great Black Wasp)
1 comment
SMOT
wrote:
6 Jan 2025
Thank you for the proper identification Michael. Once you compare this specimen with the North American Great Black wasp it is clearly different. Good to know there is not another invasive species in the garden.
Location information
- Places Richardson, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- SMOT Recorded by
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Collections
SMOT Flower wasps (Scoliidae & Tiphiidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
- Other activity Insect behaviour on flower
Species information
- Austroscolia soror Scientific name
- Blue Flower Wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 900m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Synonyms
Scolia soror
Record quality
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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