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larose forest photos | all galleries >> INSECTS (INSECTA) (28 Galleries) >> Bees, Wasps, Sawflies and Ants (Hymenoptera) (22 Sub-galleries) >> Thread-waisted Wasps (Family: Sphecidae) > Great black digger wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus)
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21-JUL-2016 Christine Hanrahan

Great black digger wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus)

Fletcher Wildlife Garden

Mountain mint attracts a lot of bees and wasps including several of these impressively large Sphecidae wasps.

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Don23-Dec-2016 21:44
Good macro, with detail both in the black and the white.
Ton T.04-Aug-2016 07:53
Superb image of this beauty! V
Graeme26-Jul-2016 13:07
I like its balancing act!! BV
Buz Kiefer23-Jul-2016 20:15
Nice detail and pose, Christine, and I like those blue highlights. Vote.
Hank Vander Velde23-Jul-2016 01:22
Beautiful sharp shot of it amid the white flowers Christine.
Helen Betts22-Jul-2016 23:26
An excellent, incredibly sharp, capture, but a vicious looking wasp! V.
Isabel Cutler22-Jul-2016 22:48
Hummm....I've been calling these "mud dauber" wasps. I have "organ pipe" nests on the brick in front of my house that are quite deteriorated since no new ones have been erected, but I still see the wasps with the iridescent blue wings. Here's what the nests used to look like: https://www.jungledragon.com/image/26601/organ_pipe_mud_dauber_nest.html
Patrick Goossens22-Jul-2016 20:53
Extremely sharp image and so close.
Jim Coffman22-Jul-2016 20:46
Good grief!! That looks to be the size of a small bird!!
joseantonio22-Jul-2016 20:23
looks really huge here.V.
Chris Morton22-Jul-2016 20:21
gorgeous photo...of less gorgeous subject
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