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Found sitting next to an area of our yard with nesting Halictus. I collected for photos and when I released him he went straight into sleeping mode. Looking at bugguide, I think this might be Holcopasites heliopsis or pulchellus.

I brought home a mud nest from Belleplain State Forest (found on Feb. 21, 2023) and reared it in an empty terrarium on an outside screened porch. On June 13, 2023, this adult Ancistrocerus lutonidus emerged from the mud nest and I got these photos of it before I released the adult wasp back where I'd found its mud nest. I attached the mud nest to a branch close to where I'd found it (since other adults could still emerge from it). This is the same mud nest I submitted to iNaturalist here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149372844