Black grasshopper hunter waspEastern Washington
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Adult wasps feed on nectar from flowers that bloom from spring, through the summer and into the fall including fruit trees, buckwheats, white forget-me-not, Douglas' dustymaiden, and rabbitbrush. Black prionyx wasps range throughout the United States and southern Canada, inhabiting open areas where grasshoppers live and the digging is easy.
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The
black grasshopper hunter or prionyx wasp is a beneficial insect of the
shrub-steppe ecosystem, as an active, natural check on grasshopper populations
and as a plant pollinator. I've seen a black prionyx trying to fly away carrying a 
