cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/768208296088675514
I guess this old glove isn't mine anymore.
Glad I noticed the new residents before trying to put it on. Any guesses as to the species? Maybe some type of mud dauber? I guess I'll just leave it alone and see if they emerge in the spring.
13 Comments
Magister@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
Yes, mud dauber, frightening but kind, rarely sting, and not that harmful
arin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
They would probably sting when disturbed tho
EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Infants in the glove are pre-stingy (takes some time out of the mudshell-papoose before their stingers harden, right? Wasp pubescence, brought to all by air.).
Stands to reason, untended (by adult wasps) mud dressed larvae can be relocated stinger- free.
Motivation to start an atrium? Or murder. Or sacrifice the gloves to the WaspBiome.
Damn answers leading to more questions.
CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work · 2 pts · 1y
An atrium?
EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Atrium/arboretum.
A grow space for bugs & plants is what I was thinking of. The best word or phrase to relay that is elusive to me currently (darn mental secretary taking a lunch or coffee break)
jjagaimo@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Unless it is a plane
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
No idea what I'm looking at here. :(
CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work · 6 pts · 1y
If you click through there's a second shot zoomed in on the mud cylinder cells of the nest in the glove.
khannie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I didn't either. Others saying it's a mud dauber which is a type of wasp.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber
lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 1y
Yikes.
subpar_nsfw@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
And they eat spiders
CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work · 4 pts · 1y
I think that's putting it mildly.
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
In the most horrifying way possible. Even spiders don't deserve that fate.