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Latin name: Clytus arietis
Size: Approximately 20mm long.
Distribution: Found throughout the UK.
Months seen: May to July.
Habitat: Hedgerows, gardens and woodland edges.
Food: Pollen. Females will also eat small insects.
Special features: Called the wasp beetle for obvious reasons. It does a
superb impression of a common wasp.
This is a harmless
insect imitating a more dangerous one in order to protect itself.
 Wasp beetles are usually seen in bright sunshine scuttling over vegetation.
Their larvae live and feed inside rotten wood.
UK Safari Beetle Section
UK Safari Creepy-Crawlies Section
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