Tag Archives: Sphex ichneumoneus
08.23.2020-2 Great Golden Digger Wasp
I photographed these in the yard a few times on our milkweed flowers. Now I am finding them on Virgin’s Bower-Clematis virginiana growing among our elderberries behind the wood pile. They are beauties among wasps and relatively harmless…to humans…but do … Continue reading
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Tagged Clematis virginiana, Common Green Bottle Fly, Great Golden Digger Wasp, Hymenoptera, insect, Insect Behavior, Lucilia sericata, Massachusetts, native flowers, native plant, native wildflower, New England, Sphex ichneumoneus, Virgin's Bower, western massachusetts, Wildflowers
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08.07.2015 More backyard bugography
First of all, this is not a bug by definition. It’s a Great Golden Digger Wasp-Sphex ichneumoneus and fairly large…about an inch long. But it’s a gentle giant in terms of aggression towards humans and of no threat whatsoever to … Continue reading
