Today Great Golden Digger Wasps (Sphex ichneumoneus) are flying.
Females of this species dig branching brood tunnels which they stock with anesthetized crickets and grasshoppers. One egg is laid on each helpless victim and when the larva hatches from the egg it eats the provided - and still live - prey.
Adult wasps feed on pollen and nectar. This one was on a Wild MInt.
John
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| Great Golden Digger Wasp |
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