Sand or digger wasps (Crabronidae & Sphecidae)

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DiBickers wrote:

25 May 2025

@HelenCross has someone suggested Genus Ammophila for you? Their waists and abdomens appear to be more elongated than yours. I would suggest these are likely Tyde’s Sand Wasps (Podalonia tydei).

Ammophila sp. (genus)

DiBickers wrote:

17 May 2025

Likely Genus Tachytes or Genus Tachysphex

Larrini (Tribe)

DiBickers wrote:

9 May 2025

The shape of the face; the silvery-grey around the sides of the thorax (the black on the top of thorax is balding); the orange-coloured translucent wings; & the predominantly burnt-orange abdomen with black tip look very much like the Tyde’s Sand Wasp (Podalonia tydei).

Podalonia tydei

DiBickers wrote:

28 Apr 2025

This looks like Williamsita (Genus). See examples of similar below.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200715008

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101319631

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105748742

Williamsita sp. (genus)

DiBickers wrote:

28 Apr 2025

Williamsita sp. (genus)

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