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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Bembicinae » Sand Wasps (Bembicini) » Bembicina » Bicyrtes » Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp (Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus)
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large black & white wasp, possibly yellow jacket - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
Copyright © 2013 Victoria MacPhail

large black & white wasp, possibly yellow jacket - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
Pinery Provincial Park, Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada
July 30, 2013
Size: ~1-2cm
Observed foraging on dense blazing star in an interdunal wet meadow/grassland area at approximately 2:30pm.

Although close in appearance to some, the patterns on the terga does not seem to match any of the black & white Vespinae (e.g. blackjacket).

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large black & white wasp, possibly yellow jacket - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus large black & white wasp, possibly yellow jacket - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
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Contributed by Victoria MacPhail on 10 September, 2013 - 12:03pm
Last updated 23 September, 2014 - 8:41am

Moved
Moved from Bicyrtes.
… John S. Ascher, 23 September, 2014 - 8:41am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 14 September, 2013 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

Sand wasp
This is a sand wasp in the genus Bicyrtes. Females hunt stink bugs as food for their offspring. Each female makes her own nest burrow in sand.
… Eric R. Eaton, 10 September, 2013 - 12:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks for the quick identification, plus the very interesting information about their life history!
… Victoria MacPhail, 10 September, 2013 - 1:17pm login or register to post comments

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