Solitary wasps, such as cicada killers, mud daubers and the metallic blue-black scoliid wasps that hover inches above the lawn, actually help us by parasitizing destructive insect pests.

Campsomeris dorsata is a hymenopteran scoliid that is endemic to South America, Central America, and parts of the West Indies. It has been used as a biological control agent in the past in Puerto Rico ...

a spider wasp, a scoliid wasp, a mud dauber wasp, a tiphiid wasp, a paper wasp and a pollen wasp; a velvet ant (wasp); a dracula ant; and a sweat bee, Lasioglossum albipes. Of particular interest was ...