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terror of the skies

A sphecid wasp:

I suspect that this may be the "steel-blue cricket hawk", Chlorion aerarium. Another parasitoid - this one specializing in crickets. I'd love to give more details about family relationships, but suborders for both predator and prey organisms are undergoing recent drastic revision.

Posted by Derksen on October 27, 2006 11:33 AM |

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