A new garden species! This wasp’s elongated body stood out between the foraging Ridge-saddled carpenter bees. It is a male Sapygina decemguttata ^[1], a rare wasp in the Netherlands that is a parasite on those bees. They were clearly not happy with his presence and purposely bumped into him from flight while he was drinking nectar.

I hope to see the females soon on the bee hotels too since the Ridge-saddled carpenter bees nest in it en masse.

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¹ Nederlands Soortenregister