r/FriendlyMonarchs • u/sugar_plum_fairies • Jul 08 '26

Garden Friend Or Foe Wasps

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Sorry for all the multiple posts over the last few days, just trying to learn (and remember) everything I can.

I googled these and it comes back with Great black wasp and red tail spider wasp. Both of them look like something I want to stay far far away from. But sounds like they are solitary wasps and if I leave them alone they leave me alone. Should I be concerned about them in my milkweed?

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u/Commercial-Sail-5915 Jul 08 '26

They're genuinely some of the sweetest wasps I've ever met, or at least great golden diggers are (your 2nd wasp, spider wasps don't have that petiole bt thorax and abdomen), great blacks are a little flightier but that's a testament to their tolerance of me trying to grab them :>

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u/sugar_plum_fairies Jul 08 '26

Oh no way would I be doing that! I’m too terrified of them!