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href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">& --Apple-Mail-316--616730943 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Eleanor sent me 4 quite decent photos (thanks, Eleanor!), and I believe the mud nests and wasps are mud-dauber wasps, which are hunters of spiders -- quite possibly black-and-yellow mud dauber, Sceliphron caementarium? in family Sphecidae. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> > Date: August 21, 2013 5:28:43 PM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Insect/?nest ID needed! > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi Again, > If you wish to send me an image(s) I will post it(them) on > Flickr where someone on Naturens might recognize it. > Dave > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Eleanor Lindsay > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 5:21 PM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Insect/?nest ID needed! > > Thank you Dave, but the two rectangular nests are situated > approximately 15inches apart on a horizontal ledge - so we have > eliminated a paper wasp and, (via Nancy Dowd), a spider > wasp.............! > > Eleanor Lindsay > > > On 21/08/2013 10:50 AM, David & Alison Webster wrote: >> Hi Eleanor & All, Aug 21, 2013 >> Legs hanging in flight & half hearted rushes sounds like Paper >> Wasp. If that unusual structure hangs on a short stalk then it is >> definite. Seen from the underside of the structure there would be >> hexagonal cells; made of paper what else ? >> >> Paper Wasps are very patient & docile. If provoked they will >> sting but it does not amount to much. They are fun to watch when >> they are collecting material for the cells. They work backwards >> along the grain of a piece of weathered wood, roll up a bundle >> between head and prolegs and fly off. >> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Lindsay" >> <kelindsay@eastlink.ca> >> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:56 AM >> Subject: [NatureNS] Insect/?nest ID needed! >> >> >>> I have just noticed two odd new-to-me structures high up on a >>> covered ledge outside my house which I have never seen before; >>> approx 4-5cms in length and 3.5cms high - sort of a rectangle >>> with rounded corners; they are brownish in colour (?? dried >>> leaves) and as I was trying to get a better look (they are in an >>> awkward position) an insect flew up to one and landed beside it - >>> at which point I rushed for a stepladder and my camera! The >>> insect was black, flying length very approximately 2cms and it >>> made a faint whirring/buzzing type sound, returning repeatedly to >>> the nest as I tried to get a picture, also making halfhearted ? >>> rushes at me. It looks so like a picture that someone posted on >>> NatureNS recently (?Nancy Dowd), which unfortunately I now no >>> longer have - slender, segmented body, mostly black with short >>> tan sections on the limbs and flying with its legs dangling down. >>> I would like to understand what it is and what it is doing not >>> only for personal interest, but also because painters are coming >>> to paint the house starting tomorrow and, while I am prepared to >>> leave the creature unmolested, I also would like to be sure it >>> poses no risk of harm to the painters painting around it - or my >>> house for that matter!!! I have managed to get a few pictures, >>> very mediocre because of the awkward placement, but possibly >>> helpful for ID purposes which I can forward to anyone interested.... >>> >>> Eleanor Lindsay, >>> Seabright, St Margarets Bay >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> No virus found in this message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6594 - Release Date: >>> 08/20/13 >>> >> >> > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6594 - Release Date: > 08/20/13 > --Apple-Mail-316--616730943 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Eleanor sent me 4 quite decent photos (thanks, Eleanor!), and I believe = the mud nests and wasps are mud-dauber wasps, which are hunters of = spiders -- quite possibly black-and-yellow mud dauber, Sceliphron = caementarium? in family Sphecidae. Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">David & Alison Webster <<a = href=3D"mailto:dwebster@glinx.com">dwebster@glinx.com</a>></font></div>= <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">August 21, 2013 5:28:43 PM ADT</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] Insect/?nest ID = needed!</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; marg