Pollen wasp

Pseudomasaris coquilletti

The honey wasp ( Masarinae ) form a subfamily of wasps ( Vespidae ) in the order of the Hymenoptera. Worldwide, there are about 210 species that live mainly in the dry warm regions, only one type ( Celonites abbreviatus ) reached Central Europe.

Like all wasps have the honey wasp wings that they can be folded longitudinally. Unlike their relatives they care for their larvae but only with pollen and nectar as food, like the bees, and have as an adaptation to the flower-visiting often prolonged mouthparts. Most types of honey wasps are solitary and lay their eggs singly in brood cells.

The only occurring in Germany way Celonites abbreviatus is very rare and there has so far been little vegetation in Bavaria, Baden -Württemberg, Thuringia and Saxony- Anhalt found few, climatically favored stone and rock areas.

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