Tiny cuckoo wasp

These are so beautiful and so hard to photograph. Great you got it! Good advice John, I'll start carrying a tiny vial of honey with a pin in it! :)

Nicely done Mark. I saw my first ever cuckoo wasp at Lysterfield last week It flashed me for about two seconds.

Is it a mid-life Chrysis? :)

try putting a drop (and I mean a little tiny drop) of honey near where it is walking around. Sometimes they will stop and eat it - for long enough to take a shot.You can't smear the honey or put too much because they will get stuck in it. Put it on with a pin or needle, and keep it about half or a third the size of the head.

I love the colour of these little fellows.

yep

Definitely a cuckoo wasp - Chrysididae