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Relatively compact body, short petiole, globose abdomen are all characteristics ...
third photo shows female dragging a ...
Roughly 14 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.
Length 20-25mm. Black with golden hairs on face, golden or silver hairs on ...
Often mistaken for the bald-faced hornet, it black with a white band around its ...
This spotting is of a winged male (8mm) and a slightly smaller wingless
Smaller than a yellowjacket, with distinctly spotted wings.
also northern part of Mexico. Females dig ...
Roughly 8-10 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.
About 8 millimeters or so in body length, colored as shown. Note eyes strongly ...
The female cicada killer digs homes for her ...
. Appropriately, they prey upon cockroaches. This is how the
Large digger wasp that hunts cicadas. ...
Lovely long-bodied wasp, brick red in color ...
, scent-marking perches that they defend from other males.
Adult eastern cicada killer wasps are ...
A black male wasp ( about 15 mm long) with ...
Spotting #900! Beautiful black wasp with a ...
About 10 millimeters in body length, colored as shown. Note "rugose" texture ...
. Tarantula hawks require a tarantula to serve as a host for their larvae. ...
Roughly 10-12 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.
Large, solitary, ground-burrowing
Red and black velvet ants are not ants, but a parasitoid
flapping its wings (Check out on this little video: ...