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Mud dauber (or "mud wasp") is a name commonly applied to a number of wasps from either the family Sphecidae or Crabronidae which build their nests from mud; this excludes members of the family Vespidae (especially the subfamily Eumeninae), which are instead referred to as "potter wasps". Mud daubers are variable in appearance. Most are long ...
The organ pipe mud dauber (Trypoxylon politum) is a predatory wasp in the family Crabronidae. It is fairly large, ranging from 3.9–5.1 cm, and has been recorded to fly from May to September. Females and males are similar in colour, a shiny black, with the end part of the back leg being pale yellow to white. [1]
Chalybion is a genus of blue mud dauber wasps in the family Sphecidae. Chalybion species nest in a wide range of natural and artificial cavities such as holes in wood, walls, plant stems, etc., where they typically provision their brood cells with paralyzed spiders. They also reuse old nests of other wasps like Trypoxylon and Sceliphron. [1]
Blue mud daubers are noted predators of black widow and brown widow spiders. As many as 15 to 20 spiders may be packed into each egg chamber of a mud dauber’s nest.
These wasps might not be an immediate threat, but they have been known to build their spider-filled nests inside of people’s homes. These SC wasps will makes nests in the ground. Here’s why ...
Chalybion californicum, the common blue mud dauber of North America, is a metallic blue species of mud dauber wasp first described by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure in 1867. It is not normally aggressive towards humans. [2] It is similar in shape and colour to the steel-blue cricket hunter (Chlorion aerarium).
Abispa splendida (also known as the large mud-nesting wasp or velvety black and yellow) [3] is a species of wasp in the Vespidae family. [ 4 ] This species was first described as Odynerus splendidus by Guérin in 1838.
Thanks largely to milder winters and a plentiful food supply, yellow jacket wasps are now building "super nests" in Alabama, according to the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.. Entomologists ...