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Chlorion aerarium Patton 1879
Steel-blue Cricket-hunter Wasp
Florida native
This digger wasp can be found in much of Florida, although less likely in the southern peninsula. The range includes much of the United States and has also been found in southern Ontario and Quebec and northern Mexico.
These thread-waisted wasps are similar in shape to blue mud daubers, and may be blue, green or violet. Cricket-hunter wasps dig nest burrows in the ground which are provisioned with adult crickets and larvae, mainly of the genus Gryllus.
Chlorion aerarium is a member of the Sphecidae - Thread-waisted Wasps family.
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Date record last modified: Jul 22, 2024
