Priocnemis Monachus - Latin for “big black wasp”
A journal entry stamped: October 14th, 2007
This critter crawled out from under our fridge. I was pretty scared of him at first, but at that point I had him mistaken for a huge fly (I’ve seen ‘em this size in the South Island). He’s not a fly.
Fired the pics off to my auntie (an entomologist with hortresearch), she asked Jo Berry (Aotearoa’s hymenoptera expert), who told us it’s a spider-hunting wasp, and we should set him free and let the spiders take their chances.
Best of luck to them all, I say!
Update: Te Ara calls this wasp a “Large Black Hunter”. Cool!
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