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Can anyone tell me the difference between these two critters, and how I can visually tell one from the other?
We have so many around our house and I am hopelessly fearful of these little buggers. They buzz around like slow helicopters: up and down, left and right, forward (I don't think I've seem them go backwards, but I usually flee in a panic as soon as they drop in front of my face, hovering there so threateningly.
What do they want from me? I'm not sweet, nor do I have a proper surface for nesting upon, I don't smell good, why, I ask, why won't they leave me alone!
My neighbors always say, as they see me running around my backyard like a banshee (what is that, anyway?), "Oh, don't worry, agreatlife, they're just mud daubs, they won't hurt."
Easy for them to say, the terrorist is not chasing them! So, how do I know for sure it's a mud daub who is just stopping by to say hi, and not an evil wasp, wanting to wipe out me and my family, and take over my dwelling?
Oh I hear you, we have some gigantic flying creatures around here too-and I don't care what they are, I take off! But here is something that might help. How To Identify a Mud-Dauber | eHow.com
I think mud daubers are mostly black but who knows, there are many types of wasps, they like to live close to water. buy some wasp spray and then tear down their nests and they will go away.
Oh I hear you, we have some gigantic flying creatures around here too-and I don't care what they are, I take off! But here is something that might help. How To Identify a Mud-Dauber | eHow.com
That site is useless without pictures! LOL. I don't want to get close enough to them to study their nest behavior. But what is interesting is that they said they are wasps, although they use their stings only on prey. Do you think they told the mud dauber that? And am I not the prey? I think we have the organ pipe mud dauber, but I still think we have lots of regular evil terrorist wasps.
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