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MaryMcP Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Jul 29, 2011

I've been seeing these around the last few weeks, they fly but this guy was collecting small gravel pieces and high-tailing it down that hole with them. Can anyone ID this little guy?

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MaryMcP Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Jul 29, 2011

Another shot.

Thanks!

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MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA(Zone 7b) Jul 29, 2011

I think this is a blue spider wasp. They dig burrows and drag prey down to feed their young. Very cool.

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MaryMcP Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Aug 03, 2011

Thanks Laurel but that was not quite right, antenna on that one is wrong. Someone in my regional forum posted he was seeing these guys around and they are Cricket Hunter Wasps, very similar, they drag crickets and grasshoppers down the hole instead of spiders. I sure hope the wasps get all these huge grasshoppers that have plagued my gardens for years!

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MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA(Zone 7b) Aug 03, 2011

I was going to ask you to send me some but we have them. I took one out of the house yesterday.

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MaryMcP Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Aug 03, 2011

Well what the heck was he doing in there? Did you tell him the 'hoppers can be found outside???

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MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA(Zone 7b) Aug 03, 2011

Umm, not always. :>) Lucky he didn't end up canned!

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MaryMcP Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Aug 03, 2011

heh heh, I get your point!

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