Golden digger wasp

Sphex funerarius
Thread-waisted wasps (Sphecidae)

♀, Wings up to the black end.
Golden digger waspon RikenMon's Nature.Guide

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Slim black-orange wasp. The abdomen is very narrow at the front, the thick backside is orange with a black tip. The head is black with a white face, head and back are grey-hairy. ♂ has completely black legs, ♀ has partly red legs, she gets bigger than ♂. The wings are yellow-brown and reach to the black rear. 

♀ catches grasshopper larvae and grasshoppers and anesthetises them to bury them with an egg, so that the larva has food. Once grown they eat nectar from flowers. 

⇔ l. 16-25 mm 

LA: 
≈ The AMMOPHILA SABULOSA (Red-banded sand wasp) has relatively longer wings and a narrower abdomen and therefore appears to be more slender.

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