Insects by Picture
Bees, Ants, and Wasps by Picture
Hymenoptera Taxonomy
Liris - Insects in the City
Liris - Bug Eric
I found this female Liris partitus was in my "S" garden bed on March 13, 2017. When I pestered her trying to take a photo, she went into her burrow, whose entrance was about the width of a pencil, and like other things wasps and other insects create, cleanly circular. Wasps in the genus Liris hunt crickets, paralyze them with their stingers, and take them into their burrows. They lay a single egg on the paralyzed cricket, and the hatched larva eats the cricket until it pupates and finally emerges as an adult.
The wasp is typically all black, but it has fine hairs that create a sheen along the legs and on other parts of the body.
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