Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society
Volume
32
Issue
5
Publication Date
12-1-1937
First Page
186
Last Page
186
Abstract
During a month's stay, last summer (1936), at the town of Muzo, Dept. Boyaca, Colombia, I had occasion to visit the venerable, but now much dilapidated church. There was as much life inside as in the adjoining yard and garden, insects passing to and fro through the open doorways and paneless windows. Various social wasps and muddaubers were nesting on the rafters and walls; but my attention was especially attracted by the buzzing of some very large fossorial wasps, Chlorion (Ammobia) caliginosum (Erichson), as determined by Dr. Richard Dow. A thriving colony had dug several deep burrows beneath the flagstone floor, opening through the adobe that held the stones together. Some of the females were dragging in, as prey, immature long-horned grasshoppers or katydids. One of the largest specimens taken from a wasp is, according to Mr. James A.G. Rehn, Cocconotus atrifrons (Brunner).
Recommended Citation
Bequaert, Joseph, "The Nest and prey of Chlorion (Ammobia) caliginosum in Colombia" (1937). Ba. Paper 294.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_ba/294