Black and Yellow Mud Dauber (Sceliphron caementarium)
Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)
Mexican Honey Wasp (Brachygastra mellifica) ...
Wasp nests may be as simple as a straight burrow in the ground, while others, such as those of mud daubers and potter wasps, are above ground, constructed of mud cavities attached to twigs, rocks, or human structures.
Sand wasps differ from spider wasps, mud daubers and many other digging wasps that provide their larvae with a single cache of food that must last throughout the larva's development.
Social Wasps such as Common Wasps, Paper Wasps, Yellowjackets and Hornets. Solitary Wasps such as Potter Wasps, Cicada Killer Wasps and Mud Dauber Wasps. Wasp Characteristics ...
Predators of the adult spiders include a few wasps, most notably the blue mud dauber, Chalybion californicum, and the spider wasp Tastiotenia festiva. Other species will occasionally and opportunistically take widows as prey.
Mud dauber wasp stinging and paralysing spider
Mud Flathead, Ambiserrula jugosa (McCulloch 1914)
Mud Whelks Illustration
Mud-dauber Wasp
Mud-dauber wasp placing spider in nest
Mud-dauber wasp, Sceliphron sp.
Mulberry Whelk Illustration ...
 See also: Wasp, Spider, Fly, Cicada, Hornet
  
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