Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

Great Golden Digger Wasp

Sphex ichneumoneus, also known as the “Great Golden Sand Digger”, can be found throughout the western hemisphere paralyzing crickets, dragging them into an underground burrow and laying eggs on them as a way to provision her offspring.

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