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By a sandy path along a road in High Park there's lots of these little hills, and if you wait you'll see what seem to be yellowjackets flying low around them. I thought at first they were bees like _Colletes_, but now I think they are beewolves, solitary, ground-nesting crabronid wasps in the genus _Philanthus_. They prey on bees like sweat bees (Halictidae) to provision their larvae with in the tunnels they dig.
They're shy and will duck back into their burrows when you approach, but if you wait you'll see them crawling on the ground looking for places to burrow, or backing out of their tunnels kicking sand behind them.
#bugstodon #insects #wasps #beewolves #Hymenoptera #Crabronidae #macro #toronto #HighPark