Great pennant / Wild carrot wasp (Gasteruption jaculator) laying eggs in the nest of a Common Yellow-face bee (Hylaeus communis) in an insect hotel.

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Great pennant wasp / Wild carrot wasp (Gasteruption jaculator), using its long ovipositor to lay eggs in the nest of a Common Yellow-face bee (Hylaeus communis) in an insect hotel, Wiltshire garden, UK, July.

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Size: 3463px × 2598px
Location: Wiltshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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