A burrowing wasp.

[Ron Evers]

We have lived here 40 years & we have never seen these creatures before. They are excavating holes about ¾"/20mm in diameter in the ground near our foundation. These are cropped about 50%.

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4. Big time crop.



Edit: I think I got the ID: Great Golden Digger Wasp.

 

[Achaicus]

Neat, a gold digger.

A beneficial solitary wasp, it kills katydid and grasshoppers and unless handled is not known to sting.