Green Sedge vs Thread-waisted Wasp

Side-by-side species comparison

Attribute Green Sedge Thread-waisted Wasp
Scientific Name Rhyacophila dorsalis Ammophila sabulosa
Order Trichoptera Hymenoptera
Family Rhyacophilidae Sphecidae
Size 10-14 mm 16-24 mm
Habitat Rivers & Streams Beaches & Coastal
Diet Predators Predators
Regions Europe, Asia Europe, Asia
Conservation Least Concern Least Concern

Green Sedge

A free-living caddisfly larva that does not build a case, instead roaming the streambed as an active predator. Adults have greenish wings.

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Did You Know?

Unlike most caddisflies, green sedge larvae are caseless predators that hunt like underwater wolves among the stream cobbles.

Thread-waisted Wasp

An elegant wasp with an extremely narrow petiole and red-banded abdomen. It hunts caterpillars and carries them clasped beneath its body to sandy burrows.

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Did You Know?

It uses a small pebble as a tool to tamp down the sand plug sealing its burrow, one of the earliest documented cases of tool use in insects.