Sighting 4546384
Laeviscolia frontalis
Two-spot hairy flower wasp at Oaklands Park, SA
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| Laeviscolia frontalis | 26 Feb 2025 | DiBickers | ||
| Laeviscolia frontalis | 20 Jan 2024 | angmarrob |
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I'm not sure what it was doing on the ground. It would keep moving while opening and closing its wings.
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DiBickers
wrote:
9 Mar 2025
@angmarrob this lady is looking for scarab beetle larvae (curl grubs) which you must have in your lawn. She will dig them up; sting and lay an egg inside each one; her larvae will consume the curl grub; then her larvae will pupate (undergo metamorphosis) until such time they are ready to re-emerge/eclose in their adult form😊
Location information
- Coordinates 138.546420-35.008605
- Places Oaklands Park, SA
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 20 Apr 2023 02:55 PM Recorded on
- angmarrob Recorded by
- Grass. Associated plant
- None. Associated animal
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Unknown Gender
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Collections
- angmarrob NatureMapr Laeviscolia frontalis Flower wasps (Scoliidae & Tiphiidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects
Species information
- Laeviscolia frontalis Scientific name
- Two-spot hairy flower wasp Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 608.9m Recorded at altitude
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