This small cuckoo wasp Omalus aeneus ^[1,2] was frolicking around in the sunlight on this warm day.

It attracted attention with it’s green metallic sparkling shiny body. Baed on the entire green colored body it is a female, males have a black dorsal side ^[2].

Again a new species that I hadn’t seen before, a new garden species.

Omalus aeneus, Krimpen a/d IJssel (NL)

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References

¹ Nederlands Soortenregister

² PAUKKUNEN, Juho, et al. An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species. ZooKeys, 2015, 548: 1.