WHAT DOES RUBY-TAIL WASP MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of ruby-tail wasp in the English dictionary
The definition of ruby-tail wasp in the dictionary is any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps.
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Oxford Dictionary of English
origin the name of a Northern Irish singer (1935–96).ruby port 7noun [mass noun]
a deep red port, especially one matured in wood for only a few years and then
fined. ruby-tail (also ruby-tail wasp) 7noun a small metalVlic cuckoo wasp that is
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Nick Baker's Bug Book: Discover the World of Mini-Beasts!
Collect these and place them in a large clear plastic bag, inflated with a straw,
with a plug of cotton wool or cloth in the entrance (for a little ventilation) tie shut
Below: The Ruby-tail wasp. This little flying metallic masterpiece is a parasite on
...
Nick Baker, Nick Baker, Wildlife Trusts (Great Britain, 2006
The insects in the foreground are (left) osmia bee in flight, with a ruby-tail wasp
on wall below, and odynerus wasp bringing in a caterpillar. Below are cross-
sections of two tubes a fortnight after the insects began work on them. Pen
drawing by ...
4
Insect Artizans and Their Work
Possibly you have not noticed that on the wall, not far from the position the Ruby-
tail Wasp has taken up, a Mason Wasp (Odynerus parietum) has half finished the
construction of her nest. As we have shown in an earlier chapter (see page 77), ...
5
Natural Science in Schools
... from the entrance to its cell in the mortar between bricks. (From a transparency.
) (b) Female Red Osmia Mason Bee {Osmia tufa). (c) Mason Wasp {Odynerus
parietum). (d) Parasitic Ruby-tail Wasp (Chrysid sp.). Ruby-tail Wasp {Chrysid sp.
) ...
6
Marvels of Insect Life: A Popular Account of Structure and Habit
The " deadly enemy " is the brilliant little ruby-tail wasp,1 whose head and fore-
body are blue or green in different aspects, and the hind-body red and gold, the
entire body having a metallic polish that makes the little creature glow and flash
in ...
By the pools Mr Coldwell collected the ruby-tail wasp Chrysis cyanea (a species
without a ruby tail) and the hoverflies Anasimyia aontracta, Tropidia scita (
plentiful) , Parhelophilue versicolor and Chalcosyrpkus nemorum. I found the
ground ...
8
Nature in the Garden: Wild Life at Our Doors
On one of the stones of the wall sits a small shining insect that might have been
moulded out of metal and polished highly. It is the four-winged insect known as
the Ruby-tail-wasp, its hindbody being the colour of that gem but with golden ...
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British and European Insects: Identified and Illustrated ...
... 40 Privet Hawk-moth 80 Red Admiral 66 Red Underwing 92 Robber Fly 102
Rose Chafer 128 Rose Gall-wasp 106 Ruby-tail Wasp 110 Sawfly 106 Scarce
Copper 78 Scarce Swallowtail 60 Scientific Names Aeshna cyanea 28 Aglais
urticae ...
Wolfgang Dierl, Henry Gwynne Vevers, 1978
Roger Key Right Ruby-tail wasp Chrysis; a cuckoo-parasite of solitary wasps on
bare sand. Roger Key Below A solitary Andrena bee on hawkweed, a typical
ruderal nectar source. Roger Key Bottom Purse-web Spider with its silk-lined
burrow.
