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The Great Black Wasp

5/29/2011

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Insects are works of art. I love photographing them. I would relish a trip to the Rain Forest just to focus on photographing all the insects I'd see. Of course, I'd be just as excited to photograph animals, plants and people. 
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I photographed this today, on May 29, 2011
This a Great Black Wasp, Sphex pennsylvanicus, also known as Katydid Killer. It's a large, solitary, non-aggressive black wasp of up to 1 1/2 inches in length. It's one of the solitary digger wasps and feeds on nectar, sap, and other insects. [source: wiki.answers]
Nesting habit:
Digs a burrow, one egg per chamber, into each of which it places a large insect such as a cicada or katydid which provides food for the hatched young. 

Novice identification is simple, in that:
  • Wasps fly with their feet trailing below rather than tucked up against their bodies like bees and hornets
  • No other wasps in North America are both this large and an unmarked dark black/blue-black. eg, Cuckoo Wasps are also blue-black, but are very small, and Great Golden Digger Wasps are large, but browner and with markings.
  • source: http://wiki.answers.com
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