Talk:Sceliphron caementarium

message: In case anyone wonders, this is a slightly modified version of my Everything2 writeup under the same name.
- wonko 00:42, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sceliphron_and_pest.jpg --Snek01 21:28, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another photo 

message: Sceliphron redirects here.  I don't think this is a a good idea, since there are several species within the genus (although no other species yet has an article). Does anyone mind if I undo this redirect? I am planning to start an article for Sceliphron curvatum, and it makes no sense for the genus to redirect to this particular species. Thanks, --IronChris  |  (talk) 00:00, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the redirect since no one seems to object. IronChris  |  (talk) 02:43, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect from ''Sceliphron'' 

message: I've just heard from an ex-pat in spain that she saw one of these and was very scared.  We don't get mud daubers in the uk I don't think, only 'normal' wasps.  So, what areas of the world do the mud daubers live in?Merkinsmum 00:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a paragraph on distribution. Basically, S. caementarium was originally widespread in Central and North America, but has been introduced all over the place, including the "western Mediterranean" which could easily include Spain. There are, however, other, native, species of Sceliphron in Spain, such as Sceliphron destillatorium, which she might have seen instead. --Stemonitis 08:04, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Where do you get mud daubers

message: The Texas Coop Extension Service website gives the genus of the B&Y Mud Dauber as Chalybion, not Sceliphron. I'm not an entomologist myself, but someone who is might want to check this out.
Tex 18:12, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genus? 

message: The article states, "After finishing a series of cells, she leaves and does not return." Is there a citation for this? I ask this because it contradicts personal observation on my part. I have several industrious mud daubers in my yard, including a couple who build nests in my garage. I'm planning to do some filming of the construction process, so I've sort of been keeping an eye out for them. Anyway, I heard the noise of a mud dauber doing the construction, and I thus located the nest. It was on its finishing touches. After completing the cells, the entire thing was coated with a layer of mud.
Some time later I noticed the mother inspecting not just this nest but a couple of the other nests in the garage. She wasn't doing any construction -- just inspecting. I thought I saw her assisting in opening one up, but I need to confirm that with future observations. In any case, the young all hatched shortly after she revisted the nests.
Now they all congregate around a Rose of Sharon plant I have each evening.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Victor Engel (talk • contribs) 20:12, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you upload a photo of a typical nest?  The article would be greatly improved by that! Huw Powell (talk) 00:59, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Returning to the nest 

message: I might be quite wrong here, but I wanted to draw the attention of people who know much more than I about this species of wasp to something I find puzzling. The current photo, apparently from an Italian source, of the contents of a dauber's nest features a variety of spiders, some rather big. Does this look...suspicious? Daubers, unless I'm mistaken, are not particularly large, and I was under the impression that most didn't hunt any spider bigger than a black widow or a brown recluse. There seems to be a tarantula, or perhaps some sort of wolf spider, among the collection in this photo. It just looks like a bunch of rather large spiders.
Again, I might be off, but I thought I'd flag this in case there's any chance it's a fake.
216.110.242.175 (talk) 21:12, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question re. photo of nest contents