All species listed, apart from the European wasp, are native to the area.
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Flower wasps |
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Blue-winged flower wasp |
Austroscolia soror |
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Yellow-headed hairy flower wasp |
Scolia (Discolia) verticalis |
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Smooth flower wasp |
Rhagigaster ephippiger |
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Unidentified Smooth flower wasp |
Tiphiidae sp. (family) |
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Parasitic wasps |
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Unidentified Braconid wasp |
Braconidae sp. (family) |
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White flank black Braconid wasp |
Callibracon capitator |
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A Diapriid wasp |
Diapriidae sp. (family) |
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A Campopleginae Parasitic Wasp |
Dusona sp. (genus) |
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An ichneumon wasp |
Enicospilus sp. (genus) |
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Two-toned caterpillar parasite |
Heteropelma scaposum |
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Unidentified ichneumon wasp |
Ichneumonidae sp. (family) |
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Orchid dupe wasp |
Lissopimpla excelsa |
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Long-tailed wasp |
Megalyra sp. (genus) |
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A Perilampid wasp |
Perilampus sp. |
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A Braconid wasp |
Pycnobraconoides sp. (genus) |
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A gall forming wasp |
Terobiella sp. (genus) |
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Potter wasps |
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A Potter wasp |
Delta bicinctum |
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Unidentified Potter wasp |
Eumeninae sp. (subfamily) |
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A Potter wasp |
Paralastor sp. (genus) |
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Sand or digger wasps |
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Unidentified Bembix sand wasp |
Bembix sp. (genus) |
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A Braconid wasp |
Pycnobraconoides sp. (genus) |
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Unidentified solitary wasp |
Crabroninae sp. (subfamily) |
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Unidentified Grass-carrying wasp |
Isodontia sp. (genus) |
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Black mud-dauber wasp |
Pison sp. (genus) |
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Formosum mud-dauber |
Sceliphron formosum |
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Unidentified Cerceris wasp |
Cerceris sp. (genus) |
Spider wasps |
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A spider wasp |
Fabriogenia sp. (genus) |
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Zebra spider wasp |
Turneromyia sp. (genus) |
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Mutillid or 'velvet ant' wasp |
Bothriomutilla rugicolli |
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Cuckoo wasp |
Primeuchroeus sp. (genus) |
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Exotic wasps |
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European wasp |
Vespula germanica |
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For more photos from the Pinnacle and elsewhere in the ACT, follow this link to the Canberra Nature Map