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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 » Thread-waisted Wasps (Sphecidae) » Sphecinae » Sphecini » Grass-carrying Wasps (Isodontia) » Isodontia philadelphica
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BIG Black Wasp - Isodontia philadelphica
Copyright © 2005 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

BIG Black Wasp - Isodontia philadelphica
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 24, 2005
Size: 1 1/2 inches approx.

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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 26 September, 2005 - 12:23pm
Last updated 9 February, 2020 - 7:54pm

Moved
Moved from Grass-carrying Wasps.
… Matthias Buck, 9 February, 2020 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Isodontia philadelphica.
… John S. Ascher, 29 September, 2014 - 6:07am login or register to post comments

not sure vs. apicalis
can't discern the black hairs on the propodeum of philadelphica
… John S. Ascher, 29 September, 2014 - 6:07am login or register to post comments

Great black wasp
Sphex pennsylvanicus.
… Eric R. Eaton, 26 September, 2005 - 7:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Correction?
More I look at this the more I think it is Isodontia philadelphica. Sorry, guess I don't know my wasps:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 28 September, 2005 - 4:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Added some new better photos to this
I added some new better photos to this-maybe it will help. or maybe not. ^_^

Thanks

Jo
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 28 September, 2005 - 10:46pm login or register to post comments

 
You sure know your wasps!!
I was hoping someone could ID it from my not so good photo of it.

Thank ^_^ We have a huge amount of wasps and bees and flies on the English Ivy.

Jo
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 26 September, 2005 - 10:43pm login or register to post comments

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