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Mud daubers prefer particular kinds and sizes of spiders for their larders. Instead of stocking a nest cell with one or two large spiders, mud daubers cram as many as two dozen small spiders into a nest cell. To capture a spider, the wasp grabs it and stings it.
Mud Dauber Facts Overview. Mud daubers a tiny little construction workers with a creepy penchant for young spiders. There are over 30 species of daubers, some of which include the Blue Mud Dauber, Black and Yellow Mud Dauber, and the Organ-Pipe Mud Dauber.
Mud daubers are the main predators of the black widow spider, helping to limit the abundance of the venomous spider. Wrens, titmice and even woodpeckers feed on the larvae inside mud nests. Female wasps don't begin nest construction until they have mated.
Sceliphron, also known as black mud daubers or black mud-dauber wasps, is a genus of Hymenoptera of the Sphecidae family of wasps. They are solitary mud daubers and build nests made of mud.
The black and yellow mud dauber, Sceliphron caementarium (Drury), is a common and widely distributed solitary sphecid wasp that hunts spiders and builds characteristic mud nests for their offspring (Figure 1). In each cell of her nest, a female mud dauber lays a single egg which she provisions with up to twenty-five live, paralyzed spiders.
Mud Dauber wasps build finger-like nests of mud which are attached to flat or vertical surfaces. The mud is molded into cells by the wasps mandibles. Their nests are usually built in sheds, barns and other structures.
The Mud-dauber Wasp is usually seen feeding on flower nectar but occasionally found flying with a spider held in its jaws, destined to be fed to larvae in a mud nest. Life history cycle. Normally the Mud-dauber Wasp puts several paralysed spiders in each nest with one egg, to eat when it hatches.
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