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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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Wasp Nest inside Shed? - Sceliphron caementarium
Copyright © 2014 Tim Turner

Wasp Nest inside Shed? - Sceliphron caementarium
Beavercreek, Greene County, Ohio, USA
August 4, 2013
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Contributed by Tim Turner on 3 March, 2014 - 2:19pm
Last updated 4 March, 2014 - 10:36am

Moved
Moved from Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps.
… Charley Eiseman, 4 March, 2014 - 10:36am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you
for the ID, Charley. I had photographed Sceliphron caementarium in my yard a month and a half before I took the photo of the nest:
… Tim Turner, 4 March, 2014 - 10:47am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Coverings, Cases, Retreats and Nests.
How big are these? I'm thinking maybe spider wasp...
… Charley Eiseman, 4 March, 2014 - 7:31am login or register to post comments

 
The structure
is still there in my shed, so I went out and measured it today. While looking at the photo it is 30 mm wide by 32 mm high.
… Tim Turner, 4 March, 2014 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

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