Steel blue cricket hunter wasp (Chlorion aerarium), close-up photo. This species is native to North America. It is coloured metallic blue and preys on

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Steel blue cricket hunter wasp (Chlorion aerarium), close-up photo. This species is native to North America. It is coloured metallic blue and preys on crickets. Photographed by the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab: an organisation dedicated to identifying, cataloguing and monitoring bees and other insect species.

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Size: 5137px × 3425px
Photo credit: © US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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