 The male grasped the rear edge of her fore wings with his tarsal claws and curved his abdomen beneath hers to make contact with her genitalia.His fore tarsi then grasped the sides of her first gastral segment.The pair remained coupled but stationary for 27 seconds before separating, at which point the female flew off and was followed by the male for a distance of 1 m.

Females have been observed dragging leaves into their nests in Ohio This wasp takes mainly large spiders of the families Lycosidae, Pisauridae, and Ctenidae with a preponderance of "Lycosa" wolf spiders, with the two main spider species caught being "Tigrosa helluo" and "Rabidosa rabida".