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Common Thin Waisted Wasp
Ammophilia procera
39.4892, -86.108
Field Notes
Description:
Black with very thin waist, thus the name. About an inch long, slender.
Habitat:
Burrows in loose dirt, makes tunnels and cells under ground.
Notes:
Stings and paralyzes prey, drags it to the tunnel system and lays an egg on it and when the egg becomes a larvae it eats the insect. Also likes flower nectar. Considered beneficial to gardners, non-aggressive.
The above wasp lost the caterpillar and when I picked up my flip flop the wasp was gone and the flip flop fell on the caterpillar and killed it. Survived the wasp and killed by a careless me.
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