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Ammophila sabulosa

Ammophila sabulosa on a Hemp agrimony flower head

  • ... that the female of the Red-banded sand wasp, Ammophila sabulosa, digs burrows in sandy ground, provides each burrow with a food supply of paralyzed caterpillars, and lays one egg, always on the first caterpillar?

Created/expanded by Chiswick Chap (talk). Self nom at 13:56, 7 January 2012 (UTC)