One-banded mason wasp
Ancistrocerus unifasciatus
The one-banded mason wasp is a wasp from eastern North America. Mason wasps are builders: they use mud to make walls inside their nests. Unlike yellowjackets, it does not live in a big paper nest but on its own.
Lives in
Eastern North America
What does it eat?
The grown-ups drink nectar from flowers. Mason wasp mothers catch small caterpillars as food for their young.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
One-banded mason wasp about 22 km/h (14 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its scientific name unifasciatus means one band, just like its English name.
2
A mason wasp mother builds little rooms with mud and puts one egg and some food in each.
3
There are two kinds of it, and one is called seminole.
you asked
Most asked questions about One-banded mason wasp
?Why is it called a mason wasp?
Because, like a builder called a mason, it uses mud to build walls in its nest.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ancistrocerus unifasciatus
- Group
- Wasps and hornets
- Family
- Vespidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Vespidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Ancistrocerus unifasciatus (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 uploaded by user robinlanark. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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