Noble scoliid wasp
Scolia nobilitata
The noble scoliid wasp is a large, hairy wasp from North America. Scoliid wasps visit flowers for nectar. Their young grow up underground on beetle grubs.
Lives in
North America
What does it eat?
Grown-ups drink nectar from flowers. The mother lays her eggs on beetle grubs in the soil, and the young eat the grub.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Noble scoliid 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
Scientists know three subspecies of it.
2
One subspecies is called tricincta, which means three belts.
3
Scoliid wasps help gardeners, because their young eat beetle grubs that chew plant roots.
you asked
Most asked questions about Noble scoliid wasp
?What does the noble scoliid wasp eat?
Grown-ups drink nectar. The young eat beetle grubs in the soil.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scolia nobilitata
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1805
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Scoliidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Scoliidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Scolia nobilitata (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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