Scolia dubia dubia
Location: Pryor, Mayes County, OK
Photo Date: 8/21/2012
ID Confidence: 87
Location: Pryor, Mayes County, OK
Photo Date: 8/21/2012
ID Confidence: 87
Location: Pryor, Mayes County, OK
Photo Date: 8/21/2012
Remarks: Males and females have a courtship dance, flying close to the ground in a figure-8 or S pattern. Females burrow into ground in search of grubs, especially those of the Green June Beetle, Cotinis, and the Japanese Beetle Popillia japonica. She stings it and often burrows farther down, then constructs a cell and lays an egg on the host. Larva pupates and overwinters in a cocoon within the body of the host. One generation per year in North, more in South.
ID Confidence: 87
Location: Pryor, Mayes County, OK
Photo Date: 8/21/2012
ID Confidence: 87
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