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Organ Pipe Mud Dauber's Home
Trypoxylon politum
10.068, -84.5188
Field Notes
Description:
There was an amazing world developing right on the lamp!!
I would have never touched it, if it has not been right on my bedroom!!
It was a large pipe made of mud on both sides of the lamp, it had separated segments, in each, there was a larva eating away on the live!! spiders, some had 4 and 5 of them, some were big, in one segment one of the live spiders had an egg or tiny larva on it.
Notes:
The organ pipe mud dauber (Trypoxylon politum) is a type of wasp in the family Crabronidae. They are fairly large wasps, shiny black with pale hind tarsi. Male organ pipe mud daubers are among the few male wasps of any species to stay at the nest. A male "stands guard" to prevent theft of prey or nest materials, as well as to ward off parasites, while a female is away collecting spiders.
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