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Crabro peltarius, female. The Andrena vaga nest I found in spring was completely taken over by dozens of these digger wasps. They kept coming in with fly after fly, feeding their offspring.
All seen on a walk along Toby's path from Ringmore to the Boundary stone.
Whatever it is it was doing a good job of pollinating, but how could it see well?
I did some research on what I originally thought were ant hills in my front yard, only to find that these little mounds are homes to individual female digger wasps. While not particularly harmful, they tend to be multiplying astronomically... time to look into some kind of eracidation methods I'm afraid.
Site: Punggol Waterfront (to-be).
The digger is picking up the fallen trees and branches that the construction workers had cut down.
a surreal scene in the walk home from UNIS school. urban sprawl gives way to a marshy expanse near the main lake (tay ho). work is taking place on some kind of irrigation channel.
Digger wasp
Earlier this year a dead tree trunk in my neighbour's garden fell over. The trunk was home to quite a few digger wasps last year so I moved it and resurrected it in my garden. Glad to say the digger wasps are still using it as skyscraper housing.
There are two Ectemnius species of different sizes and two all black digger wasps of different sizes using it for housing