Aug 30, 2020
Great golden digger wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus) decides I’ve gotten too close and pretends to be scary
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Great golden digger wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus) decides I’ve gotten too close and pretends to be scary
Happy Halloween! In celebration of creepy cool: I recently captured a quick glimpse of this solitary mud dauber wasp stuffing a 🐛 into her nest. She’ll lay a single egg in this nest she built and provision it with several juicy live paralyzed victims for her offspring to feed on. Can you imagine if wasps were human size?! 😱 #muddauber #wasp #paralyse #sphecid #tiffanybozic #PGHILL #Bioblitz2017 #CASfieldnotes (at The Habitat Penang Hill)
A rather monochromatic (achromatic?) sphecid wasp--it looked very similar to a Black and Yellow Mud Dauber, but without the yellow.
15 July 2017
Yet another blurry sphecid wasp (Ammophila sp.) at Cottonwood Beach, 7 August 2017.
Pretty sure this is a Steel-Blue Cricket Hunter Chlorion aerarium, though this one was more black than blue. Steigerwald, 29 July 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorion http://bugguide.net/node/view/8606 http://bugguide.net/node/view/8607 Also interesting: https://www.whatsthatbug.com/2010/08/09/blue-mud-wasp-3/
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber Sceliphron caementarium on Queen Anne’s lace, 17 July 2017.