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female checking a crabronid burrow
Solitary ectoparasite of mature wasp or bee larvae. This female ‘velvet ant’ was investigating a crabronid burrow (Cerceris).
from inside the pupal cocoon of a crabronid wasp
Each of the three cells of this Pison nest had yielded an identical female mutillid, or ‘velvet ant’. A solitary ectoparasite of an enclosed, mature larva or prepupa. The cocoon was spun by the host.
Aglaotilla.
[host – Pison: CRABRONIDAE]
[for the full story see my 2021 blog ‘A window into mud-nests’]