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Sphecius grandis
About 18-20 millimeters in body length, colored as shown. This was a very small, tattered specimen.
The wasp was sipping nectar from a blooming saltcedar tree (Tamarix sp.) in a vast open field of degraded shortgrass prairie with sunflower, yucca, prickly-pear cacti, and scattered elm trees.
Spotted on Jun 12, 2012
Submitted on Jan 15, 2014
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