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princessnonie New Caney, TX(Zone 8b) Jul 30, 2006

Please ID
Is it a wasp?
Does it do good?
Thanks

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DonnaA2Z Jacksonville, FL(Zone 9a) Jul 31, 2006

Looks like it might be what I call a "mud dobber". Can't say for sure, haven't gotten that close to one since I was 5 years old.

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princessnonie New Caney, TX(Zone 8b) Aug 12, 2006

Is the question just too dumb to answer or is it that nobody knows..Getting paranoid here..

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goshsmom Cincinnati, OH(Zone 6a) Aug 12, 2006

Here's a link to the Mud Dauber

http://davesgarden.com/bf/go/349/

My bug lady said these were beneficial, & to let them be unless someone was allergic or bee- paranoid. She did say they were not very aggressive. Sorry I can't be more specific--- we'd just discovered termites & I couldn't remember much else!

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princessnonie New Caney, TX(Zone 8b) Aug 13, 2006

Thanks to you both..

A DG person told me Mud Dauber's really were not harmful to people unless they were in fear of their lives, and that they were beneficial..I had no idea they were so lethal looking..

Sorry about the termites Goshsmom..Termites are a wretched fact of life here in the Gulf coast..

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Aug 13, 2006

Your bug is definitely not the same species as the one in the link above! It could be another species of Mud Dauber, but it could also be a species of Ichneumon

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Aug 13, 2006

I believe it is a digger wasp - family Sphecidae, Genus Ammophila.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/67726
Digger wasps are prolific caterpillar hunters. They take a caterpiller to their nest in the ground where they lay an egg on it. The paralyzed caterpillars are used as food for their young while they develop. So they are very much like the mud dauber, but the location and construction of the nest is different.

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princessnonie New Caney, TX(Zone 8b) Aug 13, 2006

Oh yes,
That looks like it..

I was searching on the internet and had gotten as far as Thread Waisted Wasps..

Thanks All...

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