A beautiful chalcid wasp

Lord Vetinari

Well I think they are beautiful. This one was being very uncoperative by trotting round on a camelia leaf/stem. Fairly large at 3.0mm body length.

Brian V

stevehapp

yes, quite pretty. He certainly has some sorta metallic iridescence thing going on..

nice shots, brian..

Lord Vetinari

stevehapp wrote:

yes, quite pretty. He certainly has some sorta metallic iridescence thing going on..

nice shots, brian..

Thanks Steve
These tiny wasps are one of my favourite bugs to shoot.
Brian V.

tlee

Love the wings in the first and last images.bow

Lord Vetinari

tlee wrote:

Love the wings in the first and last images.bow

Thanks T - yes I rather liked the wings esp the frilly edge.
Brian V.