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black wasp like digging bug (Great golden digger wasp )

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Great golden digger wasp
by: Moni

Cheryl
Miriam is correct your wasp looks like the Great golden digger wasp. Cicada killers are similar but the coloration is more like the digger wasp.

Females dig burrows almost vertically. Cells are dug radiating out from a central tunnel. Larvae are provisioned with crickets, camel crickets and katydids (long-horned grasshoppers). One paralyzed prey is placed in each cell, and one egg is laid on it. One generation per year.
The adult wasps feed on nectar.
These wasps are found in North America.

According to an article from U of MI, the nests of this wasp in MI are... "provisioned with 2-4 Tettigoniidae (katydids) specifically the Sword-bearing Conehead..."
Here are more pics of the wasp - http://bugguide.net/node/view/414/bgimage

And the katydid prey - http://bugguide.net/node/view/14481/bgimage
Wasp Like Digging Bug
by: Miriam

Great Golden Digger Wasp-lay their eggs in the hole that they dig. Can sting but aren't aggressive. Do seem to want to check out humans and pets, though.

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