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Great golden digger wasp (female)

Sphex ichneumoneus

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Description:

I observed this Wasp? clean all the peebles around this hole, sometimes the pebbles were huge compared to it!! it went on the plants and got a cricket (one of my favorites) it was dead before it took it inside the hole.!!

Species ID Suggestions

Great golden digger wasp (female)

Sphex ichneumoneus

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Comments (9)
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Thank you, 3rd-grade-sage9, You are right they should not be kill, they have a role in nature and we should let them do it. 3rd-grade-sage7., Yes, this one likes crickets to place in the nest. Glad you both like insect/bugs, they are fun.
Aaron_G
I've seen this species visiting flowers and also digging, but I've never gotten to observe/photograph one provisioning her nest. Great series! :-)

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Paso Pacifico Survey
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El mini-mundo de Costa Rica
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National Geographic's Great Nature Project
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Life in Costa Rica
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PublishedMarch 2, 2014

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