I recently found and killed a yellow-and-black mud dauber wasp that was very docile because I didn't realize mud daubers are non-aggressive. When left alone, these wasps only use their stingers to ...

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 must ...

Of the over 4,000 known species of wasps in California, two are known as mud daubers: Sceliphron caementarium (black and yellow mud dauber) and Chalybion californicum (blue mud dauber). Mud daubers ...

David and I live in a farming area that includes preserved fields and wooded hillsides. Both of us are outside as much as possible, but we like different things in nature. I like plants and birds, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I take the darting and buzzing of flying insects in my garden almost for granted. I have a general idea of what is out there and what they are doing, and I ...

The other day, while helping a friend work on his roof, I was amazed to find what almost appeared to be concrete filling the space around the metal chimney for his wood-burning stove. Several inches ...

I take the darting and buzzing of flying insects in my garden almost for granted. I have a general idea of what is out there and what they are doing, and I am happy they are part of the summer ...