🇨🇷 Una Avispa escarbadora dorada ( Sphex ichneumoneus ) paralizó y transportó un saltamontes hasta el hoyo que había cavado, una vez dentro del hueco le pondrá un huevo y luego lo sepulta, cuando el huevo eclosione la larva se alimentá del saltamontes mientras este permanece paralizado por el veneno de la avispa. 🇺🇸 A Great digger golden wasp ( Sphex ichneumoneus ) paralyzed and transported a grasshopper to the hole it had dug, once inside the hole it will lay an egg and then bury it, when t

See how a golden digger wasp excavates its nest! | Forest Preserve District of DuPage County

DISCOVER NATURE NOTES: Discover WHY you want this wasp around and HOW scary good Great Golden Diggers are in this week's Discover Nature Note. https://mdc.mo.gov/blogs/discover-nature-notes/great-golden-digger-wasps-scary-good | Missouri Dept. of Conservation

Meet the Great Black Wasp! Like other digger wasps, the Great Black Wasp females build their nests in the ground. As a solitary species with no hive or sister workers, the female will dig about a foot beneath the soil and create a series of tunnels using her mouth and spiny legs. Each chamber is assigned an egg and a paralyzed insect to go with it. As soon as the larvae hatch, they will have a delicious meal to feed on as they develop. They develop into pupae near the end of fall and overwinter

Short-tailed Ichneumonid wasp