About Parancistrocerus fulvipes (de Saussure, 1856)
Parancistrocerus fulvipes (de Saussure, 1856), commonly called the potter wasp, is a species of stinging wasp that belongs to the family Vespidae. This wasp uses several different locations for its nesting sites: borings in wood, old mud dauber and Polistes wasp nests, and abandoned burrows created by ground-nesting bees. It may also dig and construct its own burrows in the ground to nest. The prey that Parancistrocerus fulvipes hunts consists of caterpillars from the moth families Tortricidae, Nolidae, Crambidae, and Gelechiidae, as well as caterpillars from the Chloephorinae subfamily.
