Welcome to Chrysis.net, a web resource about Hymenoptera Chrysididae, or Chrysidids, Cuckoo-wasps, Ruby-tailed wasps. Common local names are Crisidi or Crisididi in Italian; Crisìdidos or Avispas ladronas in Spanish; Guêpes-dorées in French; Goldwespen in German; Goudwespen in Dutch. Chrysidids are colorful solitary wasps, parasitoids or cleptoparasites of other insects, mainly other solitary wasps and bees. Chrysis.net web site offers a lot of textual and photographic resources, descriptions, image galleries, comments, studies and researches. The site offers also some resources about photography, with a particular attention to equipment and macro photography.