#3591 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Red-belted Sand Wasp

🇳🇱 Grote rupsendoder ·Ammophila sabulosa

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Jean-Raphaël Guillaumin · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Alfred · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © wp-polzin · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 7991 Dwingeloo, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 7736 Beerze, Nederland:© Ralph · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Witbrantlaan West, Tilburg, Brabant, NL:© Jo Akker · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Drunen, Netherlands:© Remco Hofland · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 5066 BT Moergestel, Nederland:© Wendy de Beer · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Tilburg, Bleukbosweg, 5036 NA Tilburg, Nederland:© Wendy de Beer · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Ammophila sabulosa , the red-banded sand wasp , is a species of the subfamily Ammophilinae of the hunting wasp family Sphecidae. Found in northern Europe, the wasp is notable for the mass provisioning behaviour of the females, hunting caterpillars mainly on sunny days, paralysing them with a sting, and burying them in a burrow with a single egg. The species is also remarkable for the extent to which females parasitise their own species, either stealing prey from nests...

base stats

NL sightings 37iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,327iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).