At the weekend I found this funny faced chap loitering around our sweet peas. It seemed to have a flight route around the border often returning to this leaf. Unusually for an insect of this type, it had a neck and even looked up at me when i took its photo! The massive eyes gave it a comical expression that I had not seen before.
A short sweep of the internet, found it to be a likely Ectemnius cephalotes, a Digger wasp that nests in dead logs or stumps. I have a pile of such nice habitat only a few feet from this fellows hunting path. It feeds on flies and hoverflies apparently.
A nice, medium sized wasp, a new one on me.
2 comments:
interesting, I'd have thought it was a nomad cuckoo bee or just a hoverfly!
Nice looking little chap, have noticed more insects this year, especially Hoverflies..Who new there was so many..Love..em
Amanda xx
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