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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) » Blue Mud-dauber Wasps (Chalybion) » Common Blue Mud-dauber Wasp (Chalybion californicum)
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Mud Dubber nests - Chalybion californicum
Copyright © 2008 Brenda Tramel

Mud Dubber nests - Chalybion californicum
Amesville, Ohio, USA
August 25, 2007
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Contributed by Brenda Tramel on 3 March, 2008 - 11:03pm
Last updated 27 October, 2008 - 8:13pm

Moved
Moved from Pipe organ mud dauber.
Found near nests of Pipe organ mud dauber
… Beatriz Moisset, 27 October, 2008 - 8:08pm login or register to post comments

No, sorry.
This insect is a blue mud dauber, Chalybion californicum. They might well use the abandoned nests of Trypoxylon politum, but if so, I don't know that it has been documented. Please de-link this wasp from the nest images. Thank you, and keep up the good work:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 March, 2008 - 2:37pm login or register to post comments

 
The insects are in the same a
The insects are in the same area as the nests. I have grown-up with them and are sure that the nest and the wasps are connected.
The last time I unlinked a picture, it seperated all the pictures and I had to delete them and start again.
I did not get a real good picture of the wasps because they do not sit still for very long. I tried to take pictures of them as they gathered water, but just too fast.
… Brenda Tramel, 5 March, 2008 - 11:14pm login or register to post comments

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