Digging away! The great golden sand digger wasp is easily one of the most beautiful solitary wasps to encounter on a morning walk! Bright contrasting colors, accompanying an active and aware insect are hard to beat! These wasps hunt prey before paralyzing it to drag deep underground. Once in the ground, these wasps will lay their eggs on the unlucky insects and their larvae will soon hatch to feast on a plentiful harvest. These wasps are not aggressive in the slightest, and will retreat undergro

DISCOVER NATURE NOTES: Discover WHY you want this wasp around and HOW scary good Great Golden Diggers are in this week's Discover Nature Note. https://mdc.mo.gov/blogs/discover-nature-notes/great-golden-digger-wasps-scary-good | Missouri Dept. of Conservation