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Multi generation pipe organ nest - Trypoxylon politum
Copyright © 2010 Gary Budnik

Multi generation pipe organ nest - Trypoxylon politum
howell, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA
November 7, 2010
Pipe organ mud dauber nest that I found in the summer of '08. Its made up of 13 tubes and an estimated 34 chambers. The nest is the work of at least 3 generations, judging by the gradual improving condition of the tubes as you go higher in the nest. In summer '09 the nest hatched 2 mud daubers, 3 cuckoo wasps, and a leaf cutter bee.

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Contributed by Gary Budnik on 7 November, 2010 - 12:15pm

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