Cuckoo wasps or jewel wasps, belong to the family Chrysididae. They are kleptoparasitic, meaning like the bird of the same name, they lay their eggs in the nest of other bees and wasps, depending on the work of others to raise their offspring. My graduate adviser, Lynn Kimsey, did some taxonomic work on the group, and had a general fondness for "green shiny things". I share that fondness and I'm always excited to get a picture of these wasps.
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