Feather-legged scoliid wasp
Dielis plumipes
The feather-legged scoliid wasp is a black wasp with yellow bands on its tail end. The males have lots of pale, whitish hair on their bodies. It lives in the eastern and central United States.
Lives in
Eastern and central United States
What does it eat?
The adult wasps visit flowers. Like other scoliid wasps, its young grow on beetle grubs in the soil.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Feather-legged 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
Females have yellow bands on the first three or four parts of their tail end, and orangish hairs near the neck.
2
Males have yellow bands on the first four parts and black middle and back legs.
3
There are three slightly different kinds of it, living in different parts of the United States.
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Most asked questions about Feather-legged scoliid wasp
?Where does the feather-legged scoliid wasp live?
In the eastern and central United States.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dielis plumipes
- Named by
- Drury, 1770
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Scoliidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Scoliidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Dielis plumipes (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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