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: Insects
ANTS, BEES, WASPS & SAWFLIES (
HYMENOPTERA
)
FAMILY SPHECIDAE - THREAD-WAISTED WASPS
Ammophila procera
Grass-carrying Wasp
Brown-legged Grass-carrier
Eremnophila aureonotata
Great Black Wasp
Great Gold-Digger Wasp
FAMILY VESPIDAE - YELLOWJACKETS, PAPER WASPS AND HORNETS; POTTER, MASON & POLLEN WASPS
Polistes metricus
Polistres Dorsalis
Ancistrocerus antilope
Mason Wasp
Pseudodynerus quadrisectus
Common Aerial Jellowjacket
European Hornet
FAMILY MUTILLIDAE - VELVET ANTS
Red Velvet Ant/Cow Killer
FAMILY ICHNEUMONIDAE - ICHNEUMON WASPS
Short-tailed
Stump Stabber
Family Megachilidae - Leaf-cutter Bees, Mason Bees, and allies
Cuckoo Leafcutting Bee
FAMILY CRABRONIDAE
Sand Wasp
FAMILY SCOLIIDAE - SCOLIID WASPS
Digger Wasp
Scolia nobilitata
Family Gasteruptiidae - Carrot Wasps
Gasteruption
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