Today I present this beautiful specimen, it is a Trichrysis cyanea or commonly called golden wasp, and as its name indicates, they are wasps of very bright and metallic colors, there are red, green and blue ones like the following photographs.
They are parasitic wasps and the sting of the females has been modified to be able to deposit the egg that they usually leave in the nest of some host, thereby ensuring the preservation of their species.
It has a beautiful metallic blue color and a very interesting and striking texture can be observed, with its long antennae it searches for a trace of some prey, a partner to mate with or a nest to parasitize.
They deposit the egg in the host's nest and when it hatches it feeds on the eggs of the species it has parasitized, as well as the resources that the working parents have stored for the hatching of their young.
It is family of the emerald wasp, but the difference is that the emerald wasp is emerald green, as its name indicates, in addition to being more stylized, and that the emerald wasp does not parasitize nests, but instead parasitizes living animals such as cockroaches
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY ME, WITH MY LG Q60
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