Scoliid Wasp (Campsomeris plumipes) (6321812414)

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Description: A big, bristly, bustling, buzzing Scoliid wasp visiting a Feay's palafox (Palafoxia feayi) blossom at Jupiter Ridge Natural Area. These energetic creatures rarely hold still for photos and I usually only get their bottoms in the frame. They are solitary wasps that burrow in the ground and parasitize scarab beetle larvae. The female stings a beetle larva and lays an egg upon it. The newly hatched wasp larva then feeds upon the beetle larva. Date: 4 November 2011, 10:41. Source: Scoliid Wasp (Campsomeris plumipes) Uploaded by Jacopo Werther. Author: Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth!. Camera location26° 54′ 56.2″ N, 80° 04′ 25.06″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 26.915612; -80.073627.