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Red Banded Sand Wasp

Ammophila sabulosa

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Sphecidae

Ammophila sabulosa, the red-banded sand wasp, is a species of the subfamily Ammophilinae of the solitary hunting wasp family Sphecidae, also called digger wasps. Found across Eurasia, the parasitoid wasp is notable for the mass provisioning behaviour of the females, hunting caterpillars mainly on sunny days, paralysing them with a sting, and burying them in a burrow with a single egg. The species is also remarkable for the extent to which females parasitise their own species, either stealing prey from nests of other females to provision their own nests, or in brood parasitism, removing the…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 2,190Germany · 664United Kingdom · 190France · 47Belgium · 11Italy · 11Spain · 9Luxembourg · 8Switzerland · 5