Ensign Wasp

Typically found indoors in buildings or outdoors in temperate and tropical environments, often wherever cockroach egg cases are present.

Adults feed on nectar and honeydew; larvae are predatory, specifically consuming the eggs within cockroach oothecae.

Notable for their unique flag-like abdomen that constantly bobs up and down while they walk; they are solitary wasps that specialize as cockroach egg parasites.

They are highly beneficial to humans as they provide natural pest control by destroying cockroach eggs; they do not sting or bite humans.