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An amazing French Guianan chalcid

October 30th, 2009 ChrisR 2 comments

I know it must seem like I have gone over to the dark-side but Hymenoptera aren’t all bad … Jean sent me a few tubes of wasps in his recent batch and it didn’t take long before I found some really exquisite insects – like this one. Normal chalcids are tiny little things but this one is 15mm from head to tail … yup, I said 15mm!! With colours like a ruby-tail wasp it is absolutely incredible – have a look: