Orange Potter Wasp: Walking on Water, profile

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Family:

Potter Wasp (Wasp: Vespidae)

Species:

Orange Potter Wasp (Delta bicinctum)

This Photo:

Walking on Water, profile

Synonyms:

Delta bicinctus, Eumenes bicincta

EXTRA - Photo Specific Information:
We suspect this specimen wasn't drinking but collecting water to make mud to build it's nest as it was dry and it returned regularly.
General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
~22mm long.
Large deep orange wasp with black stripes
They make a mud nest and fill it with a larva for it's offspring to feed on.
The nest is a series of individual cells.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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