social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

families Sphecidae and Stizidae

solitary wasp that constructs nests of hardened mud or clay for the young

solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae

wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae

families Sphecidae and Stizidae