Gold-marked thread-waisted wasp
Eremnophila aureonotata
The gold-marked thread-waisted wasp is a black wasp with a very thin waist. It has two pairs of shiny golden hair patches on its body. The mother is a busy digger and hunter.
Lives in
North and South America, in sandy places
What does it eat?
Grown-ups drink nectar. The babies eat a caterpillar that their mother catches for them.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Gold-marked thread-waisted 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
The mother digs a straight down tunnel in sand or hard soil.
2
She puts one caterpillar in each nest as food for her baby.
3
Its thin waist is why it is called a thread-waisted wasp.
you asked
Most asked questions about Gold-marked thread-waisted wasp
?What does the gold-marked thread-waisted wasp eat?
Adults drink nectar, and their babies eat caterpillars.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eremnophila aureonotata
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Sphecidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Sphecidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Eremnophila aureonotata (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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