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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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unknown wasp with prey - Sceliphron caementarium - female
Copyright © 2005 ted edwards

unknown wasp with prey - Sceliphron caementarium - Female
Ventura, Coastal Region, Ventura County, California, USA
July 16, 2005
Size: about 1 1/2 to 2 inches
I don't know if it was the wind (about 15 mph) or the size of her victim, but this female got a food source for her young that was simply apparently too heavy for her to carry. She could get about five feet up and then crashed down again. Eventually she carried the victim out of my range, i"d love to know how she made out with it... Boy do I wish that I could have seen the fight between these two...

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unknown wasp with prey - Sceliphron caementarium - female unknown wasp with prey - Sceliphron caementarium - female unknown wasp with prey - Sceliphron caementarium - female
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Contributed by ted edwards on 18 July, 2005 - 10:58pm
Last updated 19 July, 2005 - 8:35am

Actually...
There was no true "fight" between the hunter and its spider prey. This latter simply struggles to flee away, but once under control it has no chance to escape the sting, which paralyzes it almost immediately.
Sorry for having overlooked these good shots until now. They show that S. caementarium specimens of coastal California have often, if not always, a yellow pedicel.
… Richard Vernier, 10 January, 2006 - 6:31am login or register to post comments

Mud-dauber
Black-and-yellow Mud-dauber, I think, e.g.:



Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 19 July, 2005 - 4:48am login or register to post comments

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