Brown-legged grass-carrying wasp
Isodontia auripes
The brown-legged grass-carrying wasp is a slim wasp with a thread-thin waist. It does not build its own nest from scratch. Instead it moves into old tunnels left behind by carpenter bees or mining bees.
Lives in
The east coast of the United States
What does it eat?
It catches tree crickets and brings them to its nest as food for its young.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Brown-legged grass-carrying wasp about 22 km/h (14 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its larvae eat for only three days.
2
After eating, a larva needs just two days to turn into a pupa.
3
Tree crickets are its favourite food for its young.
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Most asked questions about Brown-legged grass-carrying wasp
?Where does the brown-legged grass-carrying wasp nest?
In old tunnels made by carpenter bees or mining bees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Isodontia auripes
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Sphecidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Sphecidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Brown-legged grass-carrier
Where the facts come from
- Isodontia auripes (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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