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Spider Wasp? - Tachypompilus ferrugineus
Copyright © 2008 mmbeckey

Spider Wasp? - Tachypompilus ferrugineus
Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, USA
August 1, 2008
Maybe this one is better?
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Contributed by mmbeckey on 1 August, 2008 - 6:38pm
Last updated 16 August, 2008 - 10:37pm

Tachypompilus ferrugineus
probably caching its prey item while it digs a burrow at the base of the building, although they will occasionally modify cracks in brick or stone foundations as nests. This wasp is producing the next generation with this prey (it's paralyzed, not dead, and she'll later lay an egg on it), not eating it herself.
… Nick Fensler, 1 August, 2008 - 8:21pm login or register to post comments

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