mud dauber

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wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae

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The natural history of the mud-dauber wasp Sceliphron jistularium (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) in southeastern Brazil.
Nest provisioning in the mud-dauber wasp Sceliphron laetum (F.
"These tractors really gave me the collecting bug, though," Donny adds about the mud-dauber covered foursome now tucked inside an old chicken house.
Utilization of trap nests by the pipe-organ mud-dauber, Trypargilum politum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae).
Often described as earth tones, the spectrum is much broader than the mud-dauber browns of the mid-1970s.
A couple of stipulations: The airplane must live alone in a private, bird-proof hangar, (we don't have mud-daubers in Southern California), and I am the only pilot flying the airplane, or at least the next pilot flying it.
LESSON LEARNED: Turns out a nice warm powerhead that doesn't get used is a wonderful place for mud-daubers (wasps) to build nests.