{"id":744279,"date":"2026-08-20T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744279\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:58:09","slug":"essex-wildlife-trust-finds-globally-rare-wasp-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744279\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex Wildlife Trust finds globally rare wasp species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said the wasps require coastal grazing marsh and fens, where they build a &#8216;chimney&#8217; of mud above the entrance to their burrow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adults are smaller than a common wasp and are mostly black with creamy stripes and orange legs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Outside the UK, the nearest population is in eastern Europe, in Poland and Estonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Witts continued: &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, this wasp isn&#8217;t going to be interested in your jam sandwiches \u2013 it has incredibly specific tastes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mother wasps will only feed their young larvae one species of weevil, which only feeds on two species of wetland plant in the carrot family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The wasps were found in an area that had recently been dredged but the trust said they want to tailor the area to support the wasps and other rare insects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Essex? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust said the wasps require coastal grazing marsh and fens, where they build a &#8216;chimney&#8217; of mud&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-744279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}