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This Andrena dunningi has two Strepsipteran flies

On a Sphex nudus in my pollinator garden which is surrounded by woods with a stream. Clay soil.

tiny parasite on Sphex wasp

I think that's a strepsipteran sticking out from the abdomen of the lacewing. I didn't notice it when I took the picture or else I would have tried to get a better close-up.

Wasp stylopizer

I think Euryglossa. Insects from a sweep net over Burgan in flower

@johnascher

I believe this may be Caenocholax fenyesi. Found 2 in a flight intercept trap

Notice the parasite poking out of the abdomen

Strepsiptera

Stylops attack on native bee
Identified as Strepsiptera on Bowerbird by Ken Walker

Not the Bembix wasp, the red thing under the back at the rear of the abdomen. Identified as a Strepsipteran