A female Thread-waist Wasp dig a burrow that she will place several paralysed caterpillars and lay an egg. they are solitary wasps

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A female Thread-waist Wasp dig a burrow that she will place several paralysed caterpillars and lay an egg. they are solitary wasps and each female will dig many individual sights

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Location: Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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