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Scolia (Discolia) vollenhoveni
About 18 mm in length; orange head and antennae ; black body; blue wings
urban garden
A similar spotting http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/128...
I'm definitely seeing 3 submarginal cells in photo #2, so this can't be a species of Scolia. That should make this Austroscolia ruficeps, which is immensely similar in coloration.