The female mud-dauber wasps use the mud balls to build their nests. Collecting them into clusters, they then carve chambers inside the balls into which the females lay their eggs. Before closing each ...

Mud Dauber Nest: True to their name, mud dauber wasps construct their home out ... Though both belong to the same insect species (Hymenoptera), they're very different insects.

Termites, Mud Daubers and their Earths ... Actinomycetes with antimicrobial activity isolated from paper wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) nests. Environmental Entomology 42(4): 703-710.

Chen XL, Bordini GB, Stansly PA. 2016a. Avoidance of parasitized hosts by female wasps of Tamarixia radiata (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), parasitoid of Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae), vector of ...