Asian mud dauber
The Asian mud dauber is a slim black wasp with yellow and red markings. It builds little nests out of mud, often on walls and sometimes even indoors on books or clothes. It lives alone, not in a big family.
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Fun facts
It used to live only near the Himalayas and other huge mountains in Asia.
It was first found in Europe in 1979, in Austria. Since then it has spread to more than 20 European countries on its own.
It likes to build nests indoors, on piles of books, clothes or furniture.
Each mud cell in its nest is filled with spiders as food for one baby wasp.
It reached North America too and was first spotted there in 2013.
Most asked questions about Asian mud dauber
?What do Asian mud daubers do with spiders?
They catch and paralyse them and put them in their mud nests as food for their larvae.
?How big is the Asian mud dauber?
It is 1,5 to 2,5 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sceliphron curvatum
- Named by
- Smith, 1870
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Sphecidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Sphecidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Europe, North America
- Also known as
- Asian mud-dauber wasp
Where the facts come from
- Sceliphron curvatum (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by pjt56 ---. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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