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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Thread-waisted Wasps (Sphecidae) » Sceliphrinae » Mud-dauber Wasps (Sceliphrini) » Black Mud-dauber Wasps (Sceliphron) » Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp (Sceliphron caementarium)

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Copyright © 2005 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Cute wasp-no really - Sceliphron caementarium

Jim Thorpe, PA 18229, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 20, 2005
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Cute wasp-no really - Sceliphron caementarium

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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 22 September, 2005 - 11:54pm
Last updated 28 September, 2005 - 5:53pm

Thread-Waisted Wasp

Certainly for a common name I would say Thread-Waisted Wasp. They don't get any more thread-waisted than this, do they?

Genus, perhaps Ammophila?

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
www.stephencresswell.com

… Stephen_WV, 23 September, 2005 - 6:20am

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This is an easy one:-)

Tsk, tsk, Stephen:-) This is a black and yellow mud dauber, Sceliphron caementarium. Well, you did get the family right:-)

… Eric R. Eaton, 23 September, 2005 - 1:18pm

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Thank-you! that's excellent I

Thank-you! that's excellent I just took some photos of Mud Dauber nests!!! Now I can put the nest and the wasp together. The wasps are never around when I take the photos of the nests. I've noticed I see them on plants in the evening alot-are they more active in the evening?

Jo

… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 23 September, 2005 - 1:25pm

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Nests/wasps

If the nests were the Pipe Organ nests then this is not the wasp that created those. This wasp makes the hard clumpy nests like bad baseballs that are filled with chambers of sleeping spiders.

… Herschel Raney, 23 September, 2005 - 3:13pm

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I think you misunderstood-I k

I think you misunderstood-I know that mud dauber nests aren't the same as the pipe Organ Wasp's. What ment was I have a photo of the hard clumpy nests and the Mud dauber that makes them. What I didn't have until this afternoon was a photo of a PipeOrgan Wasp-which I managed to get today-so I have a photo of both species and both types of nests.

Jo

… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 23 September, 2005 - 8:33pm

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