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Hunting Wasps

When I was a kid, I used to watch mud daubers, and I thought it was pretty neat how they would bring hundreds or thousands of tiny balls of mud and build their nest with them. The nests were a little smaller than a tennis ball, and rather irregular and lumpy in their appearance. They were probably solitary hunting wasps. Most folks just called them mud daubers.

Now, I an dealing with another type of wasp, that, to me, is imminently more interesting, with nest building skills that seem more advanced. This wasp builds a tubular mud nest about the size of a carpenters pencil. At the cabin, they begin these nests in the grooves of the Till plywood, and they are very straight, and beautifully formed.

These, I am certain, are

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