I recently found and killed a yellow-and-black mud dauber wasp that was very docile because I didn't realize mud daubers are non-aggressive. When left alone, these wasps only use their stingers to ...

If you live anywhere near water — a lake, pond, or creek — you’re probably going to have cylinders of mud pipes from mud daubers decorating the outside of your home. We’ve found them under the eaves ...

Inside was a battle to the death between the numerous dirt daubers, spiders, and a handful of lizards that occupied the areas around the house. When one critter would get inside the screen, it was a ...

Those that live anywhere near water-the lake, pond, or creek, you’re probably going to have orange cylinders of mud pipes from mud daubers decorating the outside of your home. They can be found them ...

A common expression foreshadowing the topic of this discussion might be, “What goes around, comes around." For instance, if spiders are the worst nightmares of flies, then, to go around, wasps must ...

Q: I’ve attached a photo (above) of one of several insect mud homes that are in my hot water heater closet (external door is to outdoors). Is it mud dauber? Any reason to be alarmed? A: Yes, this is a ...

At first I wanted to kill it. The mud dauber set up shop this spring on the frame of the door leading to my deck, coming and going through a rip in the screen. Its nest—a fist-size, patchwork clump of ...

Mud daubers are wasp-like insects that construct nests from mud. They make a variety of nests ranging from elaborate structures (i.e., multiple tubes several inches long or small vase-like nests ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I take the darting and buzzing of flying insects in my garden almost for granted. I have a general idea of what is out there and what they are doing, and I ...

At 65, George Daniel Shafer had had a full, busy career as professor of physiology at Stanford University. On the first morning of the college year after “Emeritus” was added to his former title, ...

My grandparents had a place on the lake in Lincoln County, Georgia when I was growing up, and it is in the middle of nowhere. The old cabin had a screened-in porch with a peaceful view of the lake. If ...