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Ammophila ferruginosa
Lovely long-bodied wasp, brick red in color with silver highlights. About the size of a black and yellow mud dauber.
Happened upon this female excavating a burrow in soil beneath a small shrub at a major road intersection in a mostly urban habitat of strip malls.
Identification provided by A.S. Menke, a world authority on the genus.
Spotted on Jun 24, 2012
Submitted on Dec 20, 2012
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