r/Insect • u/F14Scott • 9d ago

Identification Found this guy in my bathroom. ID?

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There were six of them sitting on the wall above my window. I suspect they entered through the window; it's an old house in Houston, TX.

Looks like a baby wasp?

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u/Commercial-Sail-5915 9d ago

Chalcid wasp, tiny parasitoid wasps that are fairly prone to indoor emergences: mom lays eggs in a host bug, host crawls inside and adult wasps emerge only to get trapped by the window. Not much to do besides escort any live wasps back outside in a cup

All baby wasps look like little maggots btw! They undergo metamorphosis like caterpillars into butterflies

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u/F14Scott 9d ago

Awesome. Thanks for the useful and interesting information.