Real Wasp (Yellow Paper-Wasp - Polistes olivaceus) and Blue Bottle Fly (Calliphora vomitoria) insect specimen encased in rectangular indestructible, transparent lucite slide for microscope observation. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product slide put real Wasp and Fly right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the Wasp and the Fly with naked eyes or microscope.

Size of the lucite slide is 6.0x2.3x1.1 cm (2.4x0.9x0.4 inch).

Weight of the slide is 16 g and 30 g with packing box.

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.
 

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item.

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Yellow Paper-Wasp - Polistes olivaceus

COMMON NAMES: Yellow Paper-Wasp, Yellow Oriental Paper-Wasp, Redbrown Paper-Wasp; German Feldwespe
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE India - e.Asia; EXOTIC EXOTIC e.Africa - Marquesas, Easter Is.; Hawai‘i
SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Poisonous sting - serious
KEY FEATURES: Large, 20mm TL. THORAX dorsal shield black with two long and wide longitudinal yellow stripes, expanded anteriorly, and yellow patches laterally; anteo-lateral plates yellow rimmed with dark centres; posterior plate orange-brown with posterior yellow bar; WAIST mainly yellow, with black lines; ABDOMEN anterior yellow, 2nd seg red yellow with fine black band, remainder yellow with black bands. WINGS yellow. LEGS yellow-brown (male - inner seg. with black).
SIMILAR SPECIES: Dark-waist Paper-Hornet (Polistes jadwigae) has overall black waist (vs. mainly yellow); thorax-shield black with two uniformly-narrow parallel lines (vs two anteriorly expanded wide parallel lines); wings smoky-brown (vs yellow).

Blue Bottle Fly - Calliphora vomitoria

Order: Diptera  Suborder: Brachycera  Infraorder: Muscomorpha  Subsection: Calyptratae  Superfamily: Oestroidea  Family: Calliphoridae  Subfamily: Calliphorinae  Tribe: Calliphorini  Genus: Calliphora
Species: C. vomitoria

The blue bottle fly or bottlebee (Calliphora vomitoria) is a common blow-fly found in most areas of the world and is the type species for the genus Calliphora.

It is 10-14 mm long, slightly larger than a housefly. The head and thorax are dull gray and the abdomen is bright metallic blue with black markings. Its body and legs are covered with black bristle-like hair. The eyes are red and the wings are clear. The legs and antennae are black.

Life cycle

A female blue bottle fly lays her eggs where she feeds, usually in decaying meat, garbage, or feces. Pale whitish larvae, commonly called maggots, soon hatch from the eggs and immediately begin feeding on the decomposing matter where they were hatched. After a few days of feeding, they are fully grown. At that time they will crawl away to a dry place where they can burrow into soil or similar matter to pupate into tough brown coccoons. After two or three weeks, the adults emerge to mate, beginning the cycle again. During cold weather, pupae and adults can hibernate until warmer temperatures revive them.

They are pollinators of some flowers with a strong odor such as skunk cabbage and goldenrod.