- in a
single large family, and a more
refined one,
where the
seven large sphecid subfamilies were each
elevated to
family rank) have
recently been shown...
- US), or black-waisted mud-dauber (outside of the US), is a
species of
sphecid wasp.
There are some 30
other species of
Sceliphron that
occur throughout...
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times as
abundant as orb-web spiders.
Their greater success may be
because sphecid wasps,
which are
often the
dominant predators of spiders, much
prefer to...
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Philanthus nasalis is a
species of bee-hunting wasp (or "beewolf") that is
endemic to
Contra Costa County, California. Krombein, Karl V. (1979). "Philanthidae"...
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hoppers and
adults are
taken by
other insects such as ants,
robber flies and
sphecid wasps, by spiders, and by many
birds and
small mammals including dogs and...
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Sceliphron spirifex is a
species of
sphecid wasp. It has a medium-sized body (17–27
millimetres or 0.7–1.1 inches),
which is dull
black with a long, yellow...
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covered in mud. The blue mud
dauber species Chalybion californi****,
another sphecid,
builds mud nests, but
occasionally refurbishes the
abandoned nests of...
- species,
Sceliphron caementarium Online guide to
eastern North American Sphecidae Do****ents how to
differentiate Sceliphron caementarium from
other Sphecids...
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black and
yellow mud
dauber (Sceliphron caementarium), a type of
solitary sphecid wasp well
known to
Dominican pilots,
which makes a
cylindrical nest out...
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Katydid paralysed by a
Sphecid wasp, and left
outside the
tunnel while the wasp
performs a
final inspection of the interior....
