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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 » Sphex » Ashmead's Digger Wasp (Sphex ashmeadi)

Species Sphex ashmeadi - Ashmead's Digger Wasp

Orange abdomen Wasp - Sphex ashmeadi - female

Unknown wasp from South Texas - Sphex ashmeadi - female

Large thread-waisted wasp - Sphex ashmeadi - female

Large thread-waisted wasp - Sphex ashmeadi - female

After false starts, thinking Sphex ashmeadi here? - Sphex ashmeadi - male

Digger Wasp? - Sphex ashmeadi - male

Sphex ashmeadi? - Sphex ashmeadi - female

Sphex lucae? - Sphex ashmeadi - male

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