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VEER nest with one VEER egg containing multiple peck marks and 5 BHCO eggs. Nest 12 inches up ground in dense Rubus alleghaniensis thicket in upland deciduous woodland burned Spring 2021, near mesic forested stream gorge. Adult flushed from nest.

Seen attempting to hunt a Linothele fallax. It found the web and ran inside the burrow. Shortly after the spider ran out and went to safety. Very interesting wasp. I suspect it’s a Pepsis sp. but none are known to host on Linothele fallax. Some others are known to host on other members of the genus such as Pepsis petitii which is known to host on Linothele uniformis (Kurczewski, Frank E., et al. "Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)." (2022))

Note: I have photographed this Hexatomini at Cedar Bog in Champaign County, Ohio for at least 17 years. Always in the same area.
I've added two other observations; one from back in 2004.
Links to those observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88273567
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84762884
Here's an observation this year (2022) with better pics of wing venation. Same location.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/124010854

This series shows Watshamiella alata watching Sycoscapter cornutus oviposit into a Ficus burkei syconium (fruiting body) for over seven minutes; after the Sycoscapter female departs, the Watshamiella female proceeds to oviposit into the same hole. Compton et al. (2009) described this behaviour for different species of Watshamiella in Uganda and Kenya on Ficus sycomorus and Ficus artocarpoides.
Compton, S.G., Van Noort, S., McLeish, M., Deeble, M. and Stone, V., 2009. Sneaky African fig wasps that oviposit through holes drilled by other species. African Natural History, 5, pp.9-15. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230580629