Hello, Darlings
I found this little fellow DOA in a pail of rain water that
I am using to water some baby greens in my green house. It is my first
encounter with this bug, so I snap this picture and looked it up on the web.
What I discovered about this bug is that it is a Cuckoo Wasp
and it was nosing around my backyard because of the flowers and other plants I have
back there.
The Cuckoo Wasps like the
drink the nectar of flowers. They have very small stinkers, so unless you are allergic
the threat of getting badly stunk is probably less than the normal black wasp.
With all the high winds and rains we are experiencing the
wasp probably was pushed into the rain water where it could not get out and
drowned.
Anyway, here is a link on more about Cuckoo
Wasp.
Until next time,
Chow Darlings.