Visiting The Natural History Museum

I paid a visit to the Darwin Centre to visit the only guy in the country who is more into wasps than I, Dr Gavin Broad. I was given a tour of the hymenoptera archives and grabbed some snaps.


Gavin Broad

Megarhyssa

Megarhyssa - these guys are hyper-parasites that drill into wood to find the eggs of other parsitoidic wasps into which they lay their own.



Jewel Wasps

Jewel wasps that zombify cockroaches.

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Ex-catepillars

Megarhyssa

Massive Megarhyss