There he began to watch a mud-dauber wasp as she buzzed purposefully to the window sill, stretched her forefeet out like a kitten, and took a sun bath. She seemed to know exactly what she was about.

Pueblo County CSU-Extension Office horticulture specialist Amanda Weidner writes about insects that are your allies in the garden.

If a mud dauber builds its nest — a tube-like ... Take a red flashlight or cover a regular flashlight with red cellophane. Wasps can't see red light, and they'll instinctively go towards ...

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 ...

A few years ago, Lin was watching mud dauber wasps build nests on his newly purchased home. As an assistant professor that worked on soil improvement, he was fascinated by the way mud daubers ...

I had seen reports that it had a wasp problem, and so it did ... I shined my headlamp all around the inside, but aside from some old mud dauber nests up near the ceiling, I didn’t see any ...

The majority of experts said the insects appeared to be orb-weavers that had fallen victim to a female mud dauber wasp, which are commonly seen in Sydney and Melbourne and known to paralyse ...

Where are these insects—the Mud Dauber wasp, the grasshoppers and locusts ... Instead, ecologists brought in the red ladybug, Novius cardinalis, from Australia. This ladybug has a small range ...

Organ pipe mud dauber wasps are beautiful shiny black insects that range from 1.5 inches to 2 inches long. (Tami Gingrich photo) They don’t need much — a dry, sheltered spot out of the sun ...

“That bluish-black wasp is a mud dauber,” he said ... “This bee with the red on his abdomen I’ve never seen before. Sometimes you need to get the male genitalia under a microscope ...