Scientific Name:  Sphex pennsylvanicus
Order:  Hymenoptera
Family:  Sphecidae
Diet: Adults feed on nectar and larva feed on crickets and grasshoppers.
Vegetation Association:  Attracted to the bruised stem of desert broom brush
Predators: 
Life Stages:  Complete metamorphosis; egg, larva, pupa, and adult.  Females will paralyze an insect, mainly crickets and grasshoppers, and lay the eggs on them for the larvae to feed upon. 
Notes: They sting and paralyze insects before eating them.  They have a life span of only a few weeks.
Photo:  To be added.

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