The face of a Mexican grass-carrying wasp (#Isodontia mexicana).

The species was introduced from Mexico to southern France in the 1960s and has since become the most common digger wasp (sphecoid wasp) south of the Alps.

This species was first recorded in southern Germany in 1998, in Berlin in 2017, and in Hamburg in 2023.

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