book telling what he learned about Sceliphron cementarium during several happy summers. The volume is dedicated to a crippled mud dauber, “Crumple-Wing,” of which Shafer was especially fond.

Examples of two mud dauber species that are in separate genera are described below. Sceliphron caementarium. This species is commonly known as the yellow-legged mud dauber wasp. The species name ...

1 Laboratory of Research of Animal Biology and Ecology, ENS, University Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Congo. 2 Faculty of Applied Sciences, University Denis Sassou-N’Guesso, Kintélé, Congo. 3 Faculty ...

Publication of new species-group names of 264 cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) recorded in Brazil since Linnaeus’ (1758) “Systema Naturae,” calculated as the number of new taxa described per ...

1 Department of Animal Production, School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences, University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon. 2 Department of Environmental Sciences, Higher Institute of Agriculture ...

Imagine lounging idyllically in your sun-soaked garden until you notice a sinister buzzing sound. Before you lunge your book at the pesky wasp (Hymenoptera) to save your arm from developing a painful ...

School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji In recent years, the insect microbiome has become the focus of many ...

Some of the common bees and wasps in Wisconsin include honeybees (Apis mellifera), bumblebees (Bombus species), mason bees (Osmia species), yellow jackets (Vespula species), paper wasps (Polistes ...

The black and yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium) is a type of solitary wasp that is found throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It is named for its habit of building nests out of ...

Excessive antibiotic prescriptions as well as their misuse in agriculture are the main causes of antimicrobial resistance which poses a growing threat to public health. It necessitates the search for ...

As The Register reported in 2016, the city of Brisbane's airport is adjacent to some mangrove swamps that are a favorite home of Sceliphron laetum – aka the "mud dauber wasp", so named for its ...