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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pepsinae » Mud-nesting Spider Wasps (Ageniellini) » Auplopus » Auplopus mellipes » Auplopus mellipes mellipes
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Wasp nest - Auplopus mellipes
Copyright © 2011 Gary Budnik

Wasp nest - Auplopus mellipes
Howell, monmouth County, New Jersey, USA
June 1, 2011
This is its nest. It appears to be a cluster of mud capsules that have been covered with kind of mud envelope. It doesnt appear to be a reworked nest of a previous wasp.

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Contributed by Gary Budnik on 1 June, 2011 - 11:04am
Last updated 20 June, 2017 - 9:05pm

Moved
Moved from Auplopus mellipes.
… Nick Fensler, 20 June, 2017 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

Size?
Do you still have the nest? If so, it would be helpful to know its dimensions, and the size of the individual cells. Also, do you have a picture of it when it was still attached to something?
… Charley Eiseman, 3 June, 2011 - 9:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Size
The whole nest is about 3 and a half inches. Each capsule is 2/3 of an inch long and 1/4th of an inch wide. There at least 20 capsules from what I can see...
I dont have a picture of it before I removed it, but the nest was removed without any damage, so it looks the way I did when I found it. It was built at an angle, with 2 sides of the nest now exposing the inside, with the third side the "envelope" side that covered the insides before I removed it.
I can take some more pictures of the nest if needed.
… Gary Budnik, 4 June, 2011 - 10:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the info
So the nest was in the angle of a building, or some concealed place?
… Charley Eiseman, 5 June, 2011 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Building
It was in the metal frame of a chicken coup inside of an abandoned farm house, surrounded by woods. To my knowledge theres no water around so the mud must have come from after a rainy period last year.
… Gary Budnik, 5 June, 2011 - 4:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Vespula Vulgaris, 3 June, 2011 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

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