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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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Copyright © 2012 James Shelton

Blue Mud Wasp - Chalybion californicum

Powhite Park, City of Richmond, Virginia, USA
July 25, 2012

This has a long thread waist. Is this the Blue Mup Wasp?

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Blue Mud Wasp - Chalybion californicum

The Blue Mud Wasp - Chalybion californicum

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Contributed by James Shelton on 25 July, 2012 - 6:08pm
Last updated 23 November, 2012 - 3:59pm

Moved

Moved from Thread-waisted Wasps.

… Eric R. Eaton, 23 November, 2012 - 2:12pm

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Thanks!

Thanks for the ID.

… James Shelton, 23 November, 2012 - 4:05pm

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It does look a lot like one.

It does look a lot like one. The pedicel looks too long for chlorion.

… k jkh, 1 November, 2012 - 11:12am

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Thanks.

Thanks for the clarafication.

… James Shelton, 1 November, 2012 - 1:01pm

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location data

reads "...City of Richmond County..."
is that correct?

… v belov, 5 August, 2012 - 3:46pm

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Virginia

Virginia is a Commonweath along with 4 states. Cities are separate from counties. It is relly a city but some field must have been "County". This was not in any county.

… James Shelton, 5 August, 2012 - 8:18pm

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thanks for explaining this

in that case the County field should be left blank to avoid confusion.
the text "Powhite Park, City of Richmond" belongs in the City field (consider using a shorter version "Powhite Park, Richmond" -- it's pretty straightforward).

… v belov, 5 August, 2012 - 8:31pm

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What if people want to search for bugs found in Richmond using asdvanced search. The field does say county/region.

… James Shelton, 5 August, 2012 - 9:04pm

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but Richmond is neither county nor region

('regions' are divisions of some Canadian provinces/territories, mostly western)

the system automatically appends the word 'County' to whatever text entered in that box if Virginia is selected from the state list, so the field is clearly not equipped to properly handle the municipalities that are not part of any county

… v belov, 5 August, 2012 - 10:40pm

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