#3559 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp

🇳🇱 Groefbijendoder ·Cerceris rybyensis

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Jürgen Mangelsdorf · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © U. Wilkens · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Mick Talbot · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © gbohne · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Nigel Jones · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Nigel Jones · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. 5851 Afferden, Niederlande:© Peter Bönnen · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Segbroek, Den Haag, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Cerceris rybyensis , the ornate tailed digger wasp , is a Palearctic species of solitary wasp from the family Crabronidae which specialised in hunting small to medium-sized mining bees. It is the type species of the genus Cerceris and was named as Sphex rybyensis by Carl Linnaeus in 1771.

base stats

NL sightings 78iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,677iNaturalist 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).