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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) » Square-headed Wasps (Crabroninae) » Oxybelini » Oxybelus
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Square-headed Wasp - Oxybelus
Copyright © 2013 Mark Swanson

Square-headed Wasp - Oxybelus
Cook County, Illinois, USA
August 24, 2013
Fairly small. Observed frenetically "shoveling" sand grains toward the entrance of an Eastern Cicada Killer's burrow.

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Square-headed Wasp - Oxybelus Square-headed Wasp - Oxybelus
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Contributed by Mark Swanson on 27 August, 2013 - 12:08am
Last updated 28 August, 2013 - 10:16pm

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… John S. Ascher, 28 August, 2013 - 11:53am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, John.
Can you tell me the purpose of the shoveling/digging behavior so close to the Cicada Killer's burrow? At times she was tossing sand almost into the face of the Cicada Killer.
… Mark Swanson, 28 August, 2013 - 10:25pm login or register to post comments

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