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Photographed in my front yard

about 2 cm long

Dead 💀

A large, brilliantly coloured wasp fossicking around a clump of grass in search of something.

Field Notes - 25mm TL

Sighting and photos (c) greenieforever.
Field Notes - Searching for suitable pray or location for next generation of wasps. Sandy soil. approx 2.5cm long.

Sighting and photos (c) ladyrobyn.
Field Notes - a beautiful hornet about 2 to 3 cm long. it was walking over the sand and going down any holes.

About 35mm long

Great Orange Huntsman Wasp

Wasp was feeding from Eucalyptus todtiana. blossom

With prey, dragging the paralysed spider to its nesting burrow. These are photos, but we also have video of the whole exercise.

Complete with spider!

QNC Long excursion to Lonesome NP
1855/56

8342/78 Queensland Naturalists' Club long excursion.

Orange Spider Wasp in the grounds of the Eco Beach Resort south of Roebuck, The Kimberleys, Western Australia. August 2021.

, Terrick Terrick National Park, Victoria, Australia, 21 January 2017

Was carrying spider and then dropped it and came back for it.

She was trying to walk across the creek so I think she must have had a spider somewhere and looking for a way across with it

Spider Wasp attacking (and later carrying off a (Wolf?) spider on roadside at Deddick. Photo: J Lawrence

A Spider Hunting Wasp foraging amongst leaves on the ground

Dead wasp found in my garden.

Collected with permission

?has this wasp paralysed spider in images 4-8 (separate listing of spider to follow)

two individuals were collected from inflorescences of Banksia sessilis.

On Kunzea ambigua flowers. Yellow markings on head beside/behind eyes.

Sighting and photos (c) westozpathfinder.
Field Notes - Amazing amount of flying insects on these flowers.

unk Black Scoliid Wasp

Unidentified wasp - Scoliidae
Identified as Scoliidae on Bowerbird by Ken Walker