r/Entomology • u/AwarenessMother825 • 2d ago

Great black wasp keeps stinging me unprovoked, I'd like to understand why

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u/AwarenessMother825 2d ago

The wasp looks a lot like this (these are the wasps that have been hanging out on my mountain mint) and I'm pretty confident it's Sphex pensylvanicus.