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Great Black Digger Wasp

Sphex pensylvanicus

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 122, February 125, March 198, April 387, May 744, June 349, July 325, August 546, September 250, October 204, November 128, December 114.
United States14,404
Canada3,529
Ontario2,454
Massachusetts1,868
Illinois1,764
New York1,324
Minnesota1,288
Wisconsin1,246
North Carolina894
Michigan829

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Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyThread-waisted Wasps · Sphecidae
GenusSphex

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