The solitary female wasp, known as a blue mud dauber, can be identified by her shiny black body and wings. In the spring, she will be seen gathering mud for her nest.

The adult form of the dauber – sometimes called a blue mud-wasp – does not feed on spiders or other insects. It feeds on pollen and nectar, so it is most often seen feeding on flowers.

Bees, wasps, and hornets have found unique ways to survive in habitats all around the world.Mud daubers are a type of wasp that has developed a particularly interesting nesting behavior — they ...

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Does haint blue paint keep away haints and wasps? One theory circulating is that light blue paint on porch ceilings mimics the sky and prevents insects like mud daubers and wasps from nesting on them.

Out as early as May in the Great Lakes region, blue mud daubers are thieves who repurpose black and yellow mud daubers' nests into their own by dampening the soil and discarding the larvae. They're ...

Like yellowjackets, mud daubers are also part of the wasp family. Although mud daubers can come in several colors, they are typically black or blue. They build nests out of mud and typically establish ...

In a lot of ways, the naturalist Yuvan Aves’ book, Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary, seeks to find this music of life as vocalised by the creatures that live in the chaotic, urban setting of ...

Two of these wasps are in a group called mud daubers. Two additional types are known as rusty spider wasps and tarantula hawks. Except for reproduction during spring and fall, these arachnid ...

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps ...