I need a website to find a wasp that lives in the ground in Ohio a website with pictures would be helpful?

Answer 1

From what I've found the yellow jacket is the number 1 stinging insect in Ohio and, as it happen, it lives in the ground.
Here is a pic of the yellow jacket:
http://www.peninsulaflyfishers.org/Fishing_Tales/firstHall02/yellow_jacket.jpg
Here are some articles from Ohio State University about Ohio wasps and the yellow jacket:
http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/mg/manual/ent4.htm
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2075.html

Answer 2

I see you already have some pictures but wanted to let you know that ground wasps are very aggressive, be careful and get some insecticide for wasps to get rid of them. Husband was stung multiple times last summer just walking past a ground nest.

Answer 3

Of all the wasps that live underground in Ohio, Yellowjackets are the peskiest.
The most beneficial are Blue Digger and Golden Digger, & the Cicada Killer:

Yellowjacket wasps become aggressive from noise & disturbance which will sometimes infuriate them & provoke painful stinging ( especially from August through October, as they build up in large populations and scavenge for human food).
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A9ibyGW1m5NGoyIA_g2JzbkF?p=yellowjacket+wasp&ei=UTF-8&fr=ush-ans&x=wrt
The Eastern yellowjacket builds a tan, fragile papery soccer or football shaped nest underground with the peak worker population between 1,000 to 3,000. The nest may be located below the soil or aerial with the paper envelope covering containing multiple, horizontal tiers of combs (10 or more) within. Larvae hang down in combs."
http://www.beelab.osu.edu/factsheets/sheets/2075.html

The Blue Digger and Golden Digger (Threadwaisted Wasps):
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2143.html
Pictured are Yellowjackets & Great Golden Digger Wasp, (Sphex ichnumoneus).:
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/wasps.html

Cicada Killer (Sphecius speciosus (Drury)) :
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_hfrr/extensn/problems/CidadaKiller.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_killer
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/buginfo/cickillr%20wasp.htm
The female Cicada killers nest in burrows in the ground that are about the size of a quarter in diameter & can go six inches straight down and another six inches horizontally. They sting the cicada which paralyzes the prey.They have a black body that is marked with yellow across the thorax and abdomen. The wings are a reddish orange.*

Hope this helps in your research.

Answer 4

have a look here...

http://bugguide.net/node/view/14086/bgimage

it's hard to distinguish them, but it is a separate group from Yellowjackets....

having sat down on the entrance to a nest in the ground, I know this bunch pretty well.....