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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Bees and Allied Wasps
  7. Thread-waisted Wasps

family

Thread-waisted Wasps

Sphecidae

Includes
50 native 2 introduced 7 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Sphecinae 25 native
  • Ammophilinae 16 native
  • Mud-dauber Wasps and Allies 7 native
  • Chloriontinae 2 native

Range

United States

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

Most observed native thread-waisted wasps All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp Sceliphron caementarium 48,341 observations
  • Great Black Digger Wasp Sphex pensylvanicus 26,324 observations
  • Common Blue Mud-dauber Wasp Chalybion californicum 23,104 observations
  • Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp Isodontia mexicana 18,124 observations
  • Common Thread-waisted Wasp Ammophila procera 11,001 observations
  • Steel-blue Cricket-hunter Wasp Chlorion aerarium 6,473 observations
  • Sphex nudus 4,447 observations
  • Ammophila pictipennis 3,758 observations
  • Golden-reined Digger Wasp Sphex habenus 2,761 observations
  • Isodontia philadelphica 1,612 observations
  • Podium rufipes 359 observations

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