Funny little story regarding the Blue Winged Wasp

These past few weeks, I noticed about two dozen Blue Winged Wasps hovering over my section of lawn. I watched them hovering about and occasionally landing, before they would start hovering around some more.

I couldn't figure out what they were doing, so I decided to google it. The first source I found was someone asking how to eradicate them because the wasps hovering over the lawn were an eyesore. I'm not sure how wasps can be an eyesore, but I decided to keep searching and found a source explaining exactly what these wasps were doing.

Apparently Blue Winged Wasps (Scolia dubia) are a parasitic wasp, native to a large stretch of the US. And their prey of choice? Beetle grubs, specifically they enjoy the grubs of Japanese Beetles, an invasive beetle that's been plaguing the eastern US for decades at this point.

All those blue winged wasps were the females, looking for grubs to lay their eggs on! So even though these wasps would improve the health of the lawn, someone thought they were an eyesore!