Black Cricket Hunter Wasp. A medium sized wasp about an inch long 25 mm black with iridescent blue overtones on the body and wings. Steel blue cricket hunters are bluish black slender wasps with transparent dark blue wings.
Click on the photo above to enlarge it. The wasp s rear. After a cricket victim has been subdued and carried to suitable shelter the female lays on it a single egg.
It is also called the red potter wasp since it adds a mud lip to its nesting hole and seals it with mud.
It is also called the red potter wasp since it adds a mud lip to its nesting hole and seals it with mud. These chunky wasps were observed in late summer. Hunting wasps are members of various taxa of the insect order hymenoptera their habits and affinities vary in many ways but all practise parental care of their larvae in that they capture prey usually insects to feed their larvae. Click on the photo above to enlarge it.
