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White covering over screw holes

As a repairman, I buy broken electronics and fix them up and sell them. Well the other day I got a radio from someone. I left it outside in the garage and came back the next day. I saw was looked like plaster over top of the screw holes, so I assumed it was nothing and stabbed my screwdriver through it. To my luck there was an Earwig either dead or living inside it. I couldn't make much out from it, and I immediately assumed it came from the guy I got it from. A few days later I had a Television and left it outside and came back and this time I did the same. Rather than an earwig it was a spider. Does anyone know what this can be? And from looking around I found many of them.
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Contributed by Mastersoda on 28 July, 2015 - 1:23am

Sounds like a wasp is placing food
for her young in available holes in your garage, laying an egg, and then covering the holes with mud. Guessing the earwig and the spider were larval food storage, though we don't know if there is a wasp species that uses both for prey. Maybe you have more than one species of wasp??
… john and jane balaban, 28 July, 2015 - 8:21am login or register to post comments

 
That seems correct.
We have Mud daubers flying constantly in and out of the garage along with black wasps and multi colored wasps, I assume it may be those? I don't like the thought of one day a bunch of insects will burst out and leave a big mess of dead insects inside these. So should I break them all open now or just wait for them to hatch?
… Mastersoda, 28 July, 2015 - 3:57pm login or register to post comments

 
There won't be dead insets left behind.
The insects in the cells are actually alive, just paralyzed. When the eggs hatch the wasp larvae will eat the food stashed for them by their mothers, so just empty cells when they're done!
… john and jane balaban, 28 July, 2015 - 7:13pm login or register to post comments

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