We found this on a sandy leach field, it's about an inch long,maybe inch and a half-- rather big for a bee, i first saw it on milkweed, seeming to lay eggs, (that kind of motion, anyway,) pulsing it's abdomen. i then found another one on a clod of dirt, doing the same. It then was on a Queen Anne's Lace.
At first we thought it was a squash vine borer, then moved onto European Hornets, but the coloring is wrong, or at least compared to the webshots we've found....
Put this in Insect and Spider ID http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/bugid/all/ This forum is for additions to or issues with BF that's where you ID insects.
while endorsing Zhinu's comment that this is not the place to ask for identifications and to recommend our Insect and Spider Identification forum: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/bugid/all/
I have identified your wasp. It is the Eastern Cicada Killer - Sphecius speciosus: http://bugguide.net/node/view/93968/bgpage
Yours is an excellent picture, so perhaps you would add it to our BugFiles page here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/88/
Kennedy
Well I didn't know what it was. :o) Figured they would be more likely to get an answer there.
