Yellow-banded Ichneumon Wasp (Echthromorpha agrestoria) - Male

A male yellow-banded ichneumon wasp. These males would often sit in the middle of leaves with their wings up, I am not sure if there is a reason for this or not. They always had to seek out females, so perhaps they do this just to have a rest?

Ichneumonidae sp.

labium wasp

Pseudofoenus extraneus

USP campus

Fig wasp parasitoid, Sycoscapter sp. 1

This ~3mm long Sycoscapter wasp is parasitising the wasp that pollinates the Moreton Bay fig tree. But she needs to be careful as she has parasitoids of her own to worry about.

Tiny parasitoid wasp

If Walt Disney designed a parasitoid wasp… it would look like this. ~3 mm long, found on a mock orange in Fairfield, Brisbane 25/3/15

Yellow-banded Ichneumon Wasp (Echthromorpha agrestoria)