Great Golden Digger Wasp (Family Sphecidae) – Field Station

Great Golden Diggers Wasps are identified by the golden pubescence on its head and thorax, its reddish orange legs, and partly reddish orange body. GGDWs make vertical tunnels, constructing several cells at the end of each tunnel. Then they go hunting—katydids and crickets are favorite prey; a wasp that is big enough to hunt, sting and paralyze, and fly off with a katydid is a sizeable wasp.

Great Golden Digger Wasp

Great Golden Digger Wasp, Sphex ichneumoneus

Square-Headed Wasp – Field Station

Minnesota Seasons - great black digger wasp

Square-Headed Wasp – Field Station

Maryland Biodiversity Project - Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)

A revision of the Australian digger wasps in the genus Sphex (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)

Sphecid wasps Space for life

Great Golden Digger Wasp - North American Insects & Spiders

Maryland Biodiversity Project - Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)