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  8. Elegant Tarantula-hawk Wasp

species 561 observations

Elegant Tarantula-hawk Wasp

Pepsis menechma

Status
presumed native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

4 native plants
support it in the US
  • Food plants Plants it feeds on Whorled Milkweed, Honey-vine Climbing Milkweed, Narrowleaf Mountainmint 3
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Rattlesnake Master 1

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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