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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Great Golden Digger Wasp

Sphex ichneumoneus

About

A large solitary wasp with a golden-furred thorax and orange-red legs that digs burrows in sandy soil. It provisions its nest with paralyzed katydids and crickets.

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Did You Know?

It always performs a specific inspection routine of its burrow before dragging prey inside, a behavior famously studied by early ethologists.