Sighting 4480767
Ammatomus icarioides
Sand Wasp at Wellington Point, QLD
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| Ammatomus icarioides | DiBickers | 12 Apr 2025 | |
| Eumeninae (subfamily) | TimL | 29 Mar 2023 |
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User's notes
The wasp was initially sighted flying slowly close to the ground adjacent to where I was standing before landing in an adjacent shrub. It was carrying a leafhopper prey. The wasp changed shrubs several times before returning to the original location and dragging its prey into a nest in the ground, seen in the final image to the left of the wasp.
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Location information
- Places Wellington Point, QLD
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- TimL Recorded by
- Leafhopper Associated animal
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Female Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Collections
- TimL NatureMapr Sand or digger wasps (Crabronidae & Sphecidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects Ammatomus icarioides
Species information
- Ammatomus icarioides Scientific name
- Sand Wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 20.8m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
Quality score
7 / 7
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