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Eumenes pedunculatus · ąsotvapsvė

PL · kopułka wrzosówka

It lives in dry, sunny areas such as sand pits, gravel pits, roadsides, xerothermic grasslands, wastelands, heaths. The female's pot-shaped nest made of clay is attached with a thin silk thread to the stem of herbaceous plants or to a twig of shrubs, rarely to the walls of buildings or stones. Adults feed on nectar, plant juices. Entomophagous larvae, devour paralyzed caterpillars of butterflies, usually of the family Geometridae, but also Tortricidae, Pyralidae, Crambidae and others; less frequently Tenthredninidae, Cimbicidae, Curculionidae larvae.

Dažniausia iš ąsotvapsčių Lietuvoje. Biolib.cz: Female, Male Eumenes coarctatus panaši, bet patelės kaktoje skelta dėmė. Neturiu Eumenes atpažinimo raktų. Renka medžio plaušus, kam? Gal maišo su gruntu ąsotėlų "betonui"?