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Fletcher Wildlife Garden | all galleries >> Bees, wasps, ants and sawflies (Hymenoptera) of the FWG (19 galleries) >> Thread-waisted wasps (Family: Sphecidae) > Great black digger wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus)
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08-AUG-2017 Christine Hanrahan

Great black digger wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus)

Fletcher Wildlife Garden

In addition to attracting honey bees, bumble bees, other bees, this mountain mint also attracts two species of Sphecid wasps, this one being the more common. They make nests in ground burrows which they stock with katydids and grasshoppers for their larvae to feed on.

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