But it does keep the mud daubers from building their little nests.

Missouri's mud daubers generally have two generations per year.

Blue mud daubers are the main predator of the black and brown widow spiders.

Everyone comments as they drive by, "Noticed you painted your ceiling blue; trying to keep the mud daubers off?"

However, if squeezed, Organ pipe mud daubers will sting in self-defense.

Like other mud daubers, it is rarely aggressive.

The difference between normal wasps and mud daubers can be seen easily because of its long petiole.

Blue mud daubers prefer immature black widow spiders and their relatives.

Mud daubers are rarely aggressive and stings are very uncommon.

Like most other wasps, mud daubers are predators.

Juveniles are frequently preyed upon by mud daubers.

These are a widely varied family, including the digger wasps and mud daubers

Mud daubers, a common group of wasps

Male organ pipe mud daubers are among the few male wasps of any species to stay at the nest.

Brown widows are often preyed on by mud daubers and sometimes by digger wasps.

Mud daubers are long, slender wasps about 25-30mm in length; the latter two species above have thread-like waists.

Mud daubers do not build their nests underground showing that the remains were left above ground while they decomposed and were then buried.

Mud daubers and pollen wasps construct mud cells in sheltered places typically on the side of walls.

"Or mud daubers?"

Black-and-yellow mud daubers build a simple, one-cell, urn-shaped nest that is attached to crevices, cracks and corners.

Organ pipe mud daubers are also an exceedingly docile species of wasp, and generally pleasant to have around, as they serve to keep spider populations down.

Blue mud daubers frequently appropriate old nests of black-and-yellow mud daubers.

Sceliphron is a genus of Hymenoptera of the Sphecidae family of wasps, commonly referred to as mud daubers.

Online guide to Eastern North American Sphecidae Includes information on all the mud daubers and their look alikes

The old city looked like it had been molded by mud daubers, its khaki domes and minarets as monochromatic as the surrounding Kyzyl-Kum Desert.

He thanked Mud Wasp for his help and pledged always to remember it.

"Take off your skirt and lie down beside the river," Mud Wasp said to the woman.

"She was here, but she crossed the river and went on," Mud Wasp said.

"And Mud Wasp is not even my son."

Elder Brother saw a mud wasp.

Mud Wasp did the same.

Would you bust a gut trying to talk to a spider, or an orchard oriole, or a mud wasp?

Mud Wasp took a bite.

Mud Wasp asked.

He looked at Mud Wasp.

Kingfisher took the meat and put it in the pot, while Mud Wasp put sticks on the fire.

"There is no woman here, just this thin man and this fat man," Mud Wasp replied, indicating the other two.

Chalybion californicus (de Saussure, 1867) - blue mud wasp (North America)

It's related to mud wasps, hornets, yellow jackets and other such insects that are best steered clear of, but it does not sting gardeners, only aphids.

"Be careful," Dr. Albert J. Ammerman warned as he pulled a tarp from an archaeological dig, freeing swarms of mud wasps.

They named the girl Kingfisher, after the first creature who had helped Elder Brother, and the boy Mud Wasp, after the one who had helped Strange Woman.

And frankly, we've got spiders coming out of the woodwork, literally, also, and those little mud wasp nest little things that... LEO: Oh, yeah, you know, it's - yeah, don't mess with it.

Elder Brother taught his son to respect the creature who was his namesake, and always to show it due honor, and the boy did that, and the original mud wasp was pleased that it had helped the human folk.

For six years she has worked among the dizzying wheels of the porters' room helping to make these wares, worked for the same potter, a man she has watched go from young to middle-aged, growing his beard longer and longer like a mud wasp's nest.

Mud dauber (sometimes called "dirt dauber," "dirt digger," "dirt dobber," "dirt diver", or "mud wasp") is a name commonly applied to a number of wasps from either the family Sphecidae or Crabronidae that build their nests from mud.

The methods have included, Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating (AMS) and Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) which has been used when mud wasp nests have been built over paintings which gives a minimum age rather than an actual age of the painting.