Skip to content viewer section. The termites and mud-dauber wasps of West Africa build earthen structures in which their eggs and larvae develop. This paper examines how these insect earths are ...

Inspired by the way mud dauber wasps build their nests, one assistant professor began to consider the ways we could build ...

For a good angle, she lay in the mud, then pre-focused on a likely flight path and began shooting continuously. The female mud-dauber wasps use the mud balls to build their nests. Collecting them into ...

Some people describe them as a football shape. Mud Dauber Nest: True to their name, mud dauber wasps construct their home out of mud. Their nests resemble compact, cylindrical mud tubes attached ...

"In this study, the nests are made by Sceliphron, which are wasps of the family Sphecidae, superfamily Apoidea. "These are well-known mud-daubers in much of the warmer parts of the world.