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Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp

Sceliphron caementarium

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 438, February 419, March 476, April 903, May 797, June 705, July 757, August 669, September 672, October 489, November 411, December 398.
United States32,633
Texas6,613
Canada5,766
California4,981
Ontario2,483
Michigan1,412
Illinois1,247
New York1,245
Maryland996
Ohio967

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyThread-waisted Wasps · Sphecidae
GenusBlack-and-yellow Mud-dauber Wasps · Sceliphron

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