potter wasps, and mud daubers. They sting and paralyze prey with their venom but rarely sting humans. Mud daubers come in black and yellow like yellowjackets, but there have also been some that ...

Mud daubers are dark, black wasps with yellow markings and long thin waists. Often called organ pipe mud daubers, they are not aggressive unless their mud nests are disturbed. The nests are found ...

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 ...