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Hairy sandwasp, Podalonia hirsuta (Ammophila hirsuta). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare
Curtis British Entomology Plate 604Hymenoptera: Ammophila campestris Lat. = Ammophila pubescens Curtis [Plant: Petasites hybridus (Tussilago petasites, Common Butterbur)] Date: 1824-39
Curtis British Entomology Plate 296Lepidoptera: Zerynthia latentaria = Coenotephria salicata ssp. latentaria (Striped Twin-spot Carpet) [Plant: Ammophila arenaria (Arundo arenaria, Sea-reed or Marram)] Date: 1824-39
Ammophila, Sand wasp and preyA sand wasp dragging her prey, an oversized caterpillar, over the ground and back to her burrow
Ammophila sp. sand waspPage 114 of Megabugs (1995) by Miranda MacQuitty. A sand wasp with her caterpillar prey
Ammophila sabulosa, sand wasp and preyA sand wasp dragging her prey back towards her burrow. They stock their nests with the caterpillars, depositing a paralysed caterpillar in each nest and then seals it with sand