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Resurrecting the Rainbow, Pt. 2 - _TNY_4813

Resurrecting the Rainbow, Pt. 2 - _TNY_4813

After having dinner in the greenhouse at my mother-in-law's, I noticed an emerald wasp (aka cuckoo wasp) on the white wood between the windows.

Normally, when I stick my camera in their face they get moving, but not this one. He/she was literally dead tired after trying to get out of the hot greenhouse though the windows all afternoon.

After snapping this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53034793528/, I tried moving it, but it just fell down on the window sill - crumbled up and looking dead.

I eventually managed to get it off there (tomato plants in the way) and onto the table and my mother-in-law came in with an assist and gave me a cup with a little sugar water to attempt to get it up and running again.

I put a drop of suger water in front of it and moved it to it, but didn't get a reaction. Legs were still folded in under it and the antennae flat aginst the body.

After a little while with no improvement, I picked it up by the ends of the wings and literally stuck most of its head into the sugar water. Still not much of a reaction, but a foot began twitching! I then proceeded to take this photo and kept waiting.

Eventually a whole leg began to move, but not much else and I was prertty much giving up at this point - but I left it on/in the sugar water.

Finally, after fifteen minutes in the sugar, I decided this wasn't working and pulled it out - but it did! the tiny wasp began fluttering its wings a bit and actually walking around!

After the mandatory antennae grooming, it walked up onto my finger and I placed it on top of the bee hotel in the garden, looking just as speedy as it should.

The species is called Chrysis equestris and doesn't have a common English name, but the swedish one, "regnbågsguldstekel", meaning rainbow emerald wasp seems quite fitting., right?

Taken in: Sweden / Västernorrland / Hanaberg (show map)

Taken on: July 9, 2023

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Canon MP-E65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro

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