Surprise appearance from Ms Olixon banksii this afternoon while out with @jencross.bsky.social! These strange large an'ts are parasitoids of crickets, and can rarely be encountered as an orange blur running through the leaf litter, propelled by the incredible power* of those two little wings. 🌿 🐝🧪

They're so tiiiinyyyyyyy and cuuuuuute

cool. not ants tho. for a minute there i thot there was some CRAZY kind of ant i never heard of. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhopalo...

Rhopalosomatidae - Wikipedia

*those wings' only function appear to be to encourage the humans who see them in action to make silly noises. I have no idea why/how they still have wings. I just live here.