Pacific digger wasp aka Bee wolf

Description:

Observed using their oversized head to "bulldoze" pollen in a shasta daisy, giving them the pollen crusted face. Adults eat pollen, but hunt bees as food for their young. From wiki:Beewolves (genus Philanthus), also known as bee-hunters, are solitary, predatory wasps, most of which prey on bees, hence their common name. The adult females dig tunnels in the ground for nesting, while the territorial males mark twigs and other objects with pheromones to claim the territory from competing males. As with all other sphecoid wasps the larvae are carnivorous, forcing the inseminated females to hunt for other invertebrates (in this case bees), on which she lays her eggs, supplying the larvae with prey when they emerge. The adults collect nectar from flowers or from squeezing the bees they capture for prey;[citation needed] the nectar is their energy source for flight.

Habitat:

in a clump of shasta daisies

Notes:

This was a fun series to take. After a few false starts, the wasps didn't take notice of me or my camera, even when I held the flower and laid my lens on it to hold it still in the 30 knot gusts we were getting! I have more photos that are notewrthy that exceeded my 6 photo limit. Not bad for my 1600th spotting!