MYN / Piotr Naskrecki / Jewel / Cuckoo wasp (Chrysididae) feeding from flowers, Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, June. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Piotr Naskrecki / Jewel / Cuckoo wasp (Chrysididae) feeding from flowers, Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, June. meetyourneighbours.net project

Nick Upton / Ruby-tailed / Cuckoo / Jewel wasp (Pseudospinolia marqueti) feeding on Cretan oregano (Origanum onites) flowers, Lesbos / Lesvos, Greece, June.

Neil Bromhall / Jewel wasp {Chrysididae} emerging from Cockroach host, Kenya

Michael Durham / Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysididae) flying, Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve in northeast Oregon. This insect, like the cuckoo bird, lays her eggs in the nest of an unsuspecting host