Habitat for Blue-Winged Wasp (Scolia dubia) - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Habitat for Blue-Winged Wasp (Scolia dubia)

Habitat for Blue-Winged Wasp (Scolia dubia)

Habitat for Blue-Winged Wasp (Scolia dubia)

Hongbin Yang, Tayler Anderson, Justin Switzer
Nicole Sarmiento Studio

This blue-winged wasp habitat features hexagonal structures that maximize UV light reflection toward the ground, potentially attracting June beetles—the primary prey of blue-winged wasps—thus indirectly drawing the wasps into the space.

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Image, top of page: Antonio M. Rosario