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Australian flower wasp on rose bud IMG 6131 -
This native insect is a valuable ally in the battle that gardeners and farmers
continually face to control insect pests. It's a predatory species that lays its
eggs in the bodies of other insects, and when they hatch, the wasp larvae feed
on the host insect with obvious fatal consequences for the victim.
