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Natural History Photographs
by Cor Zonneveld
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Family Crabronidae - subfamily Bembicinae - tribe Bembicini
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subtribe Stizina
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Patara, Turkey; 16 June 2009.
Females of this species fly almost continuously just above the ground, often through dense vegetation;
occasionally they rest for a few seconds, but normally too short to approach and photograph them.
However, this female rested long enough to take some photo's.
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Letoon, Turkey; 10 June 2009.
Female feeding at Allium spec. First - and second! - impression is you see a Scolid wasp; however, it isn't. The stunning
likeness to the Scolidae makes one easily think this is a clear case of mimicry. But then, why would a wasp resemble another wasp from a distantly related
family? Within Crabronidae, there is plenty of aposematic coloration to be found - yet except for Stizoides not the Scolid pattern. So there is a bit
of a mystery in this color pattern...
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