[NatureNS] Insect/?nest ID needed!

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From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:00:27 -0300
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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.

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> 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
>>>
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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. &nbsp;Cheers from Jim in =
Wolfville.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br =
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