On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:42:29 -0400, " Netter"
wrote:

I have some holes in my garden soil.
They are about 1/2 inch in diameter.
By the amount of the soil piles along side I'd guess they are not very deep.
I saw an insect by one.
It had orange legs and an some orange and some black near the end of it's
body.
Maybe it looked like a big wasp.

It sounds like a cicada killer wasp. They mind their own business and
do not form colonies, although multiple individuals will make their
own burrows in a favorable location. They kill large insects and bury
them along with an egg so that the larva has something to feed on.