Chalybion

in Insects Of The World3 years ago (edited)

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Chalybion is a genus of blue mud-slathering wasps in the family Sphecidae. Chalybion species nest in various natural and artificial cavities such as holes in wood, walls, plant stems, etc., where they usually provide their stem cells with paralyzed spiders. They also reuse old nests.

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae
Subfamily: Sceliphrinae
Genus: Chalybion

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Wow, that's an interesting little guy @dynasti .. never seen one of these before .. also its is a wasp, it reminds me highly of ant, locking at its head ..

by the way, I saw that you used the text from the Wikipedia article for information gathering .. I would suggest that you add a link to the web page in your post so that no one could accuse you of plagiarism 😉