Spider and Wasp-Like Insect...

I'm currently holidaying with my family in Florida and we have found a number of different unfamiliar bugs in the garden of the villa we have been staying in. I have images of two of them -- one large spider (being from the UK, the sheer size of this is pretty terrifying) and one equally nasty looking wasp-like bug.

I've scoured the internet for images of insects similar to the wasp-like one we caught first of all, but was unable to find anything useful. I believe the spider resembles images I've seen of grass spiders but I'm not an expert in the identification of insects and would appreciate a solid identification.

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Minot, ND

The wasp appears to be a spider wasp (family Pompilidae); the spider is a wolf spider (family Lycosidae) - the shape of the cephalothorax is quite characteristic, and the spinnerets of grass spiders are much more prominent (easily sen from above) than those of female wolf spiders...

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