I actually like these wasps, they’re not aggressive at all, you can actually watch them make a nest, every time I water my garden I see a fleet of them looking for mud
Mud daubers are actually cool, and they’re solitary which reduces the risk of the wasps ever feeling alarmed. We had a few of these around here, leading to their being fewer garden pests. They almost never sting, unlike other wasps.
Currently have one in my bedroom. Was just chilling on my windowsill for a few days peacefully and never went out the open widow. I was closing the window and accidentally squished its leg or something so immediately I opened the window and instead of flying out the window it flew BACK INTO my bedroom and is now flying around STEAMING MADDDDDD. Hiding under my covers lol HELP!
Hi makenna, It could be a bit disruptive, but there's a good chance It won't hurt you, they mainly only sting If you provoke them. Thank you for watching the video. kevin.
I love mud daubers, they're so friendly I've held them before and they just sit and wonder why you decided to hold them. I've had a few sit on me while blacksmithing
I've never had issues with mud daubers. I've picked up paper wasps before and thought they were OK. I've only picked up yellow jackets with a piece of wood. Wish more people would stop being eager to be needlessly mean to them.
I had one follow me in my garden for a whole summer. She was my friend. They can seem aggressive but I think they are just interested and harmless. Like jumping spiders. And they are helpful to bees by killing other wasps that kill bees. A friend of my friend is a friend of mine.
I watched one build a mud nest in the fins of a rotor tiller. It would bring grubs. It was horrific indeed. I sprayed it because I didn’t wanna see the suffering go on any longer
Same here! We captured one been hanging around in corner of our RV inside for a couple of days now. Had to hunt down what kind of wasp it was and finally figured it out, which led to this great video, what a trip! Thank you, I learned something new today.👍😊
So interesting....have one on my porch, she has built four tubes in the last week. We have had a good deal of rain so she can build the chambers. There are nectar-filled flowers nearby to keep herself strong and there are tons of spiders near her nest to fill the chambers. I was going to remove them but after seeing this, I am going to leave them......so cool. Thanks!👍💗
I woke up today to hear a buzzing coming from my window, which is always unnerving lol. So I lifted the blinds and there was a mud dauber! (I thought at first it was a normal wasp and about had a heart attack but noticed it’s skinny body and realized it was a mud dauber instead) I spent about 30 minutes calmly trying to coax it to the center of my window so I could put a Tupperware container over it. It was so chill and gentle and I was eventually able to catch it with no problems and just released it outside! I’m not gonna lie it was a pretty beautiful thing watching it fly away. They’re really wonderfully gentle things, so never be afraid to rescue one if they appear in your home!! 💖
well said I have been studying these wasps for a couple of years, I have been in their faces for some of the time, and not once have any of them been aggressive. Thank you for your comment. Kevin.
One stung me yesterday it was trying to nest near my bbq . Caused swelling and pain. I detest them and will seek them out whenever I can because I don’t want my poor kids to get stung by them
@@generalstack6540 it's just it's a lot more effective to just stay calm when they are nearby you. And a single slow swat to get them away from food or drink won't piss them off enough to sting. Ofc if there is a nest on your property I would remove them. But going out to kill them is the definition of a war of attrition
@@pmmeyourdadjokes9811 stung me just under the lip. Was miserable experience. I called out pest control today -- they launched the first salvo - phase I was launched against them today.
I hate killing critters, but one of these was causing problems in my house. No matter what it stopped at nothing to make it's nest inside my house, I tried keeping the windows closed for a couple of days, but it just waited outside. I destroyed it's nest and allowed it to discover the nest was compromised, but it just began building the nest again in the same place. I attacked it while it was building the nest hoping it might get it to abandon the location, but it still kept coming back. I didn't know what else to do but swat it. It was stopping me from having my windows open and was bringing a lot of mud in the house. I feel terrible because it's the first time I've ever seen this creature and I ended up killing it.
I had one in the apartment while I was eating a chicken wing in the afternoon and I was terrified that it would sting me. So I kept hiding from it and kept the window open while it was flying around the apartment. My grandma, on the other hand, was so calm bc she couldn't see where the mud dauber went😅 Luckily, it flew away after awhile and I could continue to eat my chicken wing.
Have these in the garage, the are a lot cooler and nicer than other wasps. You can walk right near them or brush them away or off things and they will mind their own buisness. I was wondering where all the spiders went.
Excellent video! I learned so much! Been in Texas my whole life and we have these all over the place. We call them “dirt daubers” here. I knocked one nest off of my patio a few weeks ago and a ton of spiders fell out and I was so confused! Now it makes so much sense. I feel bad for knocking the nest down now actually. Although I don’t think our guests would appreciate the little guy flying around their heads 😆
I believe we currently have a nest on our window. Today I watched this creature add another cell. However, they are round nests, connected, not long. It is on the window by our couch so we can now see inside of it. If this is what it is, which I am pretty sure it is, my kids will love seeing it all as the process goes. Can’t wait to show them this video!
thank you very much particularly for the sound of these wasps make while constructing the mud shelters! i was curious on my kitchen where is this wasp is stuck and what it does, but now i know :)
These are one of the most annoying things in our house. If any socket is left not plugged in for some time, tyeres suddenly a wasp nest inside the socket holes. It's really annoying because if you want to use the socket, you have to dig out everything with a screw driver. And if there's a larva inside, you'll end up squishing it. And now there's larva goo all over the socket. And even if there's no larva. It's still mud, you can't completely get rid of it. Then you'll have loose connection issues with the socket...
I have one similar at my window. The mullion I think(The middle part). But the one it's building doesn't look like the one in the video. Instead of having a hole at the end, it has a hole in the middle. I kinda don't want to remove it but I need to move that window part and put a mop outside when it floods or close my window when the rain pours to my direction due to the wind. I don't know if they'll feel threatened if I did those.
Nice work on this video, very informational. We get a couple of these each year in our garage in California. We keep them around to get rid of all the spiders.
Mud daubers are if not thee most dosile creatures, you can actually get pretty close. I was able to get super close to one that was collecting mud for its nest. I like them cause they kill a lot of spiders.
Been hearing some weird buzzing noises in my garage. Have found 3 tubes. One had 2 connected. But. Figured out what all the noise was (live in East TN we have black ones)
There's a website called iNaturalist that has biologists and photographers that can help you identify the wasp. Just upload some photos and the general location as well as some detail about the observation.
Wow this video was really informative... I was actually wondering what was inside the mud dauber's nest which I have inside my room... Thanks for the video
Our Mud Daubers here (South Illinois) ain't as colorful as this, they are just black with yellow legs, No stripes on them like that. But they are just as gentile, They routinely fly into homes and fly about banging into walls and celings but never trying to sting anyone, I have 2 that have been living with me a while in doors now just banging around, I leave a small bottle cap full of honey for them to eat.
outstanding vid. I have seen these nesting and flying around my house since I was a child. I was always very wary of them as they look quite fearsome in flight. Now I don't feel so threatened. This was very interesting.
Absolutely agree about them looking fearsome in flight. Ever since I was a kid I’d seen them fly around and thought that they were terrifying as something that looks like a stinger (I don’t even know if it is) always points directly down and looks HUGE. But recently I’ve found a nest and it’s very docile. Still don’t like European Wasps though, they’re jerks.
Yeah, we have several species of mud daubers here in the States, so we know what they can for us. What most people think is that they are threat, not what they can do for man. Thanks for your video!
I was gonna destroy a nest out of fear. Took a sharp pencil and poked it's nest. It was pretty strong. And then I was spooked by the wasp when she made an appearance. Slowly, I realized how hard working this mother was. So creative and so complex her nest. So, I left her to finish building and go. Once the babies hatch out, I will try to break the nest and keep it as a souvenir from nature.
I was sitting on my porch watching an organ pipe builder just now and found this video while trying to figure out how she was doing it! : ) solitary wasps deserve more love
Excellent information. Mine in California come to my bird bath for water. It’s pretty dry now, summer, so perhaps they mix up the mud elsewhere. Love the vibrating to liquify and work the mud. How many millions of years to evolve this way of life. I fear humans are doomed, we are too disconnected from nature. Thank you for your video.
I know this may sound pretty strange, but am I the only one that thought that larvae had a cute and contented look on it's face at 4:46 ? It was like "Aw yeah I just ate a shit ton of paralyzed spiders and now I'm going to lay back and chill!" 😅
My son was stung multiple times on his knee on christmas day, and now he is so scared of wasps its becoming a huge issue. This summer we have had so many wasps for some reason, they are even somehow getting inside, and I have found a mud wasp nest just outside my front door . I found it by watching where the wasp kept going back and forward to. Unfortunately I need to get rid of it. so my son doesnt have to see wasps everywhere. WHat is the best way to do this? thanks for the great video!
I would personally recommend you call a pest control and they can come check it out. Then if they find a nest they can remove it and you won't have to worry about your son or the wasps. It also may depend where you live, such as a warm location (Texas for example.) or a cold location (Michigan for example.) And it also depends on what type of house/apartment/condo you have. Hope I helped!
One of these guys made a nest on the rear side of a plastic chair in my room. It came every day and built tubes from mud next to the first tube. After building 7-8 of them she covered the top of those 7-8 tubes and made a semi-spherical shape from mud that covering the tubes which is a thing that I haven't seen from any other mud-dauber video on UA-cam. For example in this video, she builds the tubes and leaves the nest after the hatching time comes babies come out of the tip of the tubes. How will the new bees come out of the tubes in my case? They will be have to overcome the additional spherical layer above their tubes. Will she stop building more nests? Should I remove the chair to the balcony? Will she be able to find the nest in the balcony or will keep coming to my room to start building a new nest from zero? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
She might not find the nest if you move It, but If you need to, she will start somewhere else. The new Wasps will be able to chew their way out, nature makes sure of that. Thanks for watching it, Be careful not to study them too much, You will hooked, and spend all of your spare time watching them. HaHa.
@@queenslandbackyardbugsandb2761 Thanks for this informative answer. Yes, I'm already hooked though :-) The nest she made on the little plastic chair is visible from my desk and whenever she comes to check the nest or comes with mud to repair something on the nest I stop doing my jobs and watch her hardworking character admiringly :-)
So I went looking on Google to find out what type of alien bug made this mud type mess on my door. I was completely disgusted as I took my knife and broke down the dried mud, to see tiny spiders and 2 yellow "worms" as I thought they were. Now I know better BUT I didn't at the time. Holy smokes I was so grossed out. The tiny spiders, I knew they were alive bcuz they weren't dried out but they weren't moving. Anyways, I'm a nerd and like to know a little about everything so that's why I'm here. Oh I forgot to mention the whole reason I found the dang thing in the first place was bcuz this wasp was flying around my front porch all around my while I'm having coffee. It landed on that mud thing and kept going bk and forth from this puddle of water, back to the mud thing. Anyways, I'm not proud to say that I "unalived" the wasp. Yes I'm a wasp killer. Sorry. I'm NOT, however, sorry that I opened that nasty thing up and killed the spider ... And yes the 2 little yellow "worms" as I thought they were. I unalived them ALL! ! ! NASTY!
I've got one building on the outside of my bathroom vent pipe. Took me ages to figure out what was going on, because all I heard was one wasp buzzing around periodically. I kept expecting more to show up. Now I've realized that the buzzing I've been hearing is the wasp working to distribute the mud evenly. Fascinating critters, I wish she was in a spot where I could watch her build! Thanks for the video ✨
They keep building nests in my window. The noise they make doing it makes me go insane. Its like someone using an old dental drill with mud stuck in it. I dont care if they are chill, they are so loud when building.
I love mud Daubers and Paper wasps! We have always allowed them in our garden, they are so acclimatized to us we can legit pick them up by hand and move them, and in 34 years never once have I been stung.They bite however when they get ticked off.
Such an educational video, thank you! We broke one just now because I was ignorant of what it was. We came here and saw the mud dauber, the nest, the larvae, all the paralyzed spiders, the cocoon...ill tell you that this was one of my favorite homeschool lessons! We will not be killing these again. Thank you!
Your video is incredible! Thank you for making this. I found 4 smaller, perfectly shaped circles. I couldn't help it, I needed to know! They were full of bright green worms and a larvae in each.
This is quite interesting to watch. I've never held wasps in very high regard... Until watching this video at least! I actually kind of have a fear of them, but I think this maybe helped a little bit! Thanks for this... great job on a really cool and interesting video.👍
Im watching this because there’s a wasp building her nest in my shower..twice, for my own safety i get rid of the nest but the wasp keep coming back💆🏻♀️
Please help someone! There are other living creatures around me who fly, eat, build, reproduce, and God knows what else they do. Inability to live peacefully next to them. he built the small house several meters high, I could barely knock him down from there. And I have to repaint the whole wall. All I want is for my walls to be spotless and for these naughty living worms to perish who think they own the world.
i hate wasps but i love these guys, we have a great relationship, i watch them at a water spot usually 5 of them get mud and i be reeaallly close and we really just be chillin. this is coming from somebody who hates wasps and there intimidating demeanor
I knocked down a mud capsule on my house earlier today. I noticed that there was a grub in it and a bunch of green spiders. Thanks for explaining all this to me I feel bad for knocking it down now!!!
Hi kona702, Thank you for watching my video, You can't imagine how much fun I get out of making them, sometimes they lose nests, we get careless. If you ever get the chance again, Observe her coming and going.
The coolest thing about mud daubers, is that they are actually very docile. They can sting, but it's pretty rare. I had one in my window and I was able to coax it outside without any problem.
I always try to leave these alone! Non aggressive!! They kill spiders!? Good! I hope they like Black-widows, brown recluse, funnel webb ,& banana spiders!!! Because i definitely don’t!🤔😂
The nest is made up of earth (which does consists of germs/bacteria). And the nest is filled with dead spiders/small insects (when it start to decomposed it produced lot of bacteria) ... and the question is why didn't these bacteria harm the waspe's egg? Anyone ?
I went for a smoke and heard this buzzing noise. Looked behind, and it was 5 mud cacoons and a wasp behind me above my balcony door. After watching this video, ill leave them alone. Do they leave after they hatch, or are they going to be staying around?
I saw a dirt dauber for the first time in my life 2 months ago, she was building her mud nest, I was watching it everyday. I didn't know what was happening, but after a couple of days the wasp didn't return so I thought that she has died and her nest is half done. So I left the nest as it is for 2 months. But I was just curious about what was inside the nest so I broke it after 2 months and found a lot of spiders and a larva in it. Then I watched your video. Now, I am completely fucked up that I have broken their life cycle. But I got to learn a lesson that never interrupt the nature at any time, at any cost.😓
In 1996 in the Dominican Republic a Dauber Wasp was Blamed for Bringing Down a Commercial Jet Airliner..! It was said the jet sat for 25 days and the Wasp Built a nest in the Planes air Speed Detection Tube (pitot tube) wich was not covered and the nest blocked it causing a false reading when the jet was in flight causing the jet airliner too go into a Stall and then Crashed into the Ocean .
I grew up in Australia before moving to the UK. I remember being around 7 or 8 years old playing in a sandpit and one of these fly and landed next to me. I had been raining so there was excess water and I suppose it looked a bit like mud. I got the hell out of there. It's appearence makes it look dangerous.
I saved one of these fuckers out of the pool with my hand, he immediately dried his wings and then bit me, instead of stinging me. I guess it was it’s way of giving me a kiss lol
These are incredible creatures. I’ve had to clean up some old nests before, and have come across plenty of dead spiders doing so. Amazing the things that are happening in the eco system around your home that you aren’t even aware of.
My girl: bae, do my waist look thin, yu kno i been wrkn out. Me: just got done watching this "Educational, Transformational, Video." #TWICE! & seeing a wasp, with the thinnest waist, I have ever seen, too! I thought about my answer very carefully. Me to my girl: bae, you the Queen 🐝. 👀
Somehow, a blue dauber got into my condo. I was happily laying in bed and one flew out of the HVAC unit and flew around the house. I realized what it was but was forced to kill it as I had no safe way to capture it and I wasn't having that in small place for long. I'm assuming it came in via the hallway as I rarely open the patio and was attracted to the moisture of the air con.
Damn I feel bad now for knocking down its nest. I looked it up because like 10 spiders fell out of it. Now I feel soo bad. Humans truly do fear what we don’t understand :(
An hour ago, I destroyed a nest it made on my door and a bunch of paralysed spiders fell out. I was not expecting that.
i broke one today, was also not expecting spiders. I was thinking other wasps were in there
Just knocked one of these down myself.. spiders were quite a freaky surprise 😬
Those spiders weren’t dead, just paralyzed from the venom. After a while they’ll get back up from being paralyzed
Dont kill them
...soooo you rather deal with possibly venomous spiders? Lol
I actually like these wasps, they’re not aggressive at all, you can actually watch them make a nest, every time I water my garden I see a fleet of them looking for mud
Yes but what about the suffering!
They are more docile than any other Hymenoptera species. I tried hard to get stung by one of these but it didn't.
I just spent two hours watching this thing build a nest in our patio. It really was an interesting process.
They certainly are interesting but can be time wasters as well Thank you for watching.
Im watching one make its 2nd hole its actually really cool too watch her make it
Indeed. I watched one build a catacomb in the head of a rotor tiller. It brought grubs in every few days
@@queenslandbackyardbugsandb2761 Nothing interesting goes on waste.
Mud daubers are actually cool, and they’re solitary which reduces the risk of the wasps ever feeling alarmed. We had a few of these around here, leading to their being fewer garden pests.
They almost never sting, unlike other wasps.
There solitary???? Theres like 20 if them in my backyard at a mud puddle
@@Trixie0406congratulations, your backyard is a wasp neighborhood instead of a household
@@kristheheretic5103 oh yay…
Currently have one in my bedroom. Was just chilling on my windowsill for a few days peacefully and never went out the open widow. I was closing the window and accidentally squished its leg or something so immediately I opened the window and instead of flying out the window it flew BACK INTO my bedroom and is now flying around STEAMING MADDDDDD. Hiding under my covers lol HELP!
Hi makenna, It could be a bit disruptive, but there's a good chance It won't hurt you, they mainly only sting If you provoke them. Thank you for watching the video. kevin.
I hope you are alivs
You good
I think she has been eaten by the wasp and now she's food for her newborns
@@NovaNests Nah, don’t worry. The wasp probably just infected her and she mutated into another Wasp Hybrid. Nothing to worry about.
Yet.
I love mud daubers, they're so friendly
I've held them before and they just sit and wonder why you decided to hold them.
I've had a few sit on me while blacksmithing
Thank heavens the ones with the worst stings are the least aggressive.
Really...? That's cool . I've only ever seen them killing (poor) spiders.
I've never had issues with mud daubers. I've picked up paper wasps before and thought they were OK. I've only picked up yellow jackets with a piece of wood. Wish more people would stop being eager to be needlessly mean to them.
I had one follow me in my garden for a whole summer. She was my friend. They can seem aggressive but I think they are just interested and harmless. Like jumping spiders. And they are helpful to bees by killing other wasps that kill bees. A friend of my friend is a friend of mine.
@@WhistlesToAnimals mud daubers are cool. Paper wasps and yellow jackets deserve horrible deaths
I've lived around mud daubers now for 12 years or so, and never knew of the horrors that occur in these nests.
I watched one build a mud nest in the fins of a rotor tiller. It would bring grubs. It was horrific indeed. I sprayed it because I didn’t wanna see the suffering go on any longer
So cool how they use the high pitched vibration as a means of spreading the mud out more efficiently. I enjoyed this
They are amazing animals, There is so much to learn about insects and all animals. thank you for watching.
Its similar to how people use vibrations to evenly fill walls when pouring them out of concrete.
For a second I thought these were mini Hornets, thx man, I'm scared of them even tho they are friendly...
Thank you for watching the video, yes you still wouldn't want to annoy them.
Same here! We captured one been hanging around in corner of our RV inside for a couple of days now. Had to hunt down what kind of wasp it was and finally figured it out, which led to this great video, what a trip! Thank you, I learned something new today.👍😊
@@katalackatt76 Thank you for watching my video, They are very interesting creatures, but they can be a nuisance in the wrong place.
So interesting....have one on my porch, she has built four tubes in the last week. We have had a good deal of rain so she can build the chambers. There are nectar-filled flowers nearby to keep herself strong and there are tons of spiders near her nest to fill the chambers. I was going to remove them but after seeing this, I am going to leave them......so cool. Thanks!👍💗
Elizabeth, thank you for watching. Most insects serve a purpose, and they interesting to observe.
I woke up today to hear a buzzing coming from my window, which is always unnerving lol. So I lifted the blinds and there was a mud dauber! (I thought at first it was a normal wasp and about had a heart attack but noticed it’s skinny body and realized it was a mud dauber instead) I spent about 30 minutes calmly trying to coax it to the center of my window so I could put a Tupperware container over it. It was so chill and gentle and I was eventually able to catch it with no problems and just released it outside! I’m not gonna lie it was a pretty beautiful thing watching it fly away. They’re really wonderfully gentle things, so never be afraid to rescue one if they appear in your home!! 💖
Great video! We need more wasp awareness!! Wasps are not purely evil and mean organisms, they are happy pollinators who just want to be good parents.
well said I have been studying these wasps for a couple of years, I have been in their faces for some of the time, and not once have any of them been aggressive. Thank you for your comment. Kevin.
One stung me yesterday it was trying to nest near my bbq . Caused swelling and pain. I detest them and will seek them out whenever I can because I don’t want my poor kids to get stung by them
@@generalstack6540 it's just it's a lot more effective to just stay calm when they are nearby you. And a single slow swat to get them away from food or drink won't piss them off enough to sting. Ofc if there is a nest on your property I would remove them. But going out to kill them is the definition of a war of attrition
@@pmmeyourdadjokes9811 stung me just under the lip. Was miserable experience. I called out pest control today -- they launched the first salvo - phase I was launched against them today.
@@pmmeyourdadjokes9811terrible advice for dealing with social wasps, especially yellow jackets
I hate killing critters, but one of these was causing problems in my house. No matter what it stopped at nothing to make it's nest inside my house, I tried keeping the windows closed for a couple of days, but it just waited outside. I destroyed it's nest and allowed it to discover the nest was compromised, but it just began building the nest again in the same place. I attacked it while it was building the nest hoping it might get it to abandon the location, but it still kept coming back. I didn't know what else to do but swat it. It was stopping me from having my windows open and was bringing a lot of mud in the house. I feel terrible because it's the first time I've ever seen this creature and I ended up killing it.
You have started to become a wildlifer, 😁
This is the most chill wasp type/breed I've ever seen
I had one in the apartment while I was eating a chicken wing in the afternoon and I was terrified that it would sting me. So I kept hiding from it and kept the window open while it was flying around the apartment. My grandma, on the other hand, was so calm bc she couldn't see where the mud dauber went😅 Luckily, it flew away after awhile and I could continue to eat my chicken wing.
Another awesome video, capturing aspects of the lifecycle we never ordinarily get to see!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks Ann.
There's one on my window window window it's just standing there menecingly I'm in the Philippines 😢
This was really well done. Thanks for making it
Glad you enjoyed it!
Have these in the garage, the are a lot cooler and nicer than other wasps. You can walk right near them or brush them away or off things and they will mind their own buisness. I was wondering where all the spiders went.
John, all the spiders are totally eaten by the grub, they do a great job.
I'm pretty much infested by these, they don't sting luckily. But they make such a noise and nests everywhere
I keep finding these in my house. I know they're not aggressive, but it's getting to be a problem. Any tips?
Excellent video! I learned so much! Been in Texas my whole life and we have these all over the place. We call them “dirt daubers” here. I knocked one nest off of my patio a few weeks ago and a ton of spiders fell out and I was so confused! Now it makes so much sense. I feel bad for knocking the nest down now actually. Although I don’t think our guests would appreciate the little guy flying around their heads 😆
Hi Cidney, They are very industrious critters, Interesting to watch If you have the time.
I believe we currently have a nest on our window. Today I watched this creature add another cell. However, they are round nests, connected, not long. It is on the window by our couch so we can now see inside of it. If this is what it is, which I am pretty sure it is, my kids will love seeing it all as the process goes. Can’t wait to show them this video!
thank you very much particularly for the sound of these wasps make while constructing the mud shelters! i was curious on my kitchen where is this wasp is stuck and what it does, but now i know :)
You're very welcome!
Been watching one in front my house for weeks, give her a name (BugMommy). I didn't know the sound was rk even the clay, they're so smart!
These are one of the most annoying things in our house.
If any socket is left not plugged in for some time, tyeres suddenly a wasp nest inside the socket holes.
It's really annoying because if you want to use the socket, you have to dig out everything with a screw driver.
And if there's a larva inside, you'll end up squishing it. And now there's larva goo all over the socket.
And even if there's no larva. It's still mud, you can't completely get rid of it. Then you'll have loose connection issues with the socket...
I have one similar at my window. The mullion I think(The middle part). But the one it's building doesn't look like the one in the video. Instead of having a hole at the end, it has a hole in the middle.
I kinda don't want to remove it but I need to move that window part and put a mop outside when it floods or close my window when the rain pours to my direction due to the wind. I don't know if they'll feel threatened if I did those.
Wow! Fantastic Kevin! Absolutely brilliant photography, editing and narration. So informative. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Denise, Thank you.
I have these all in my gardens all summer. They are all welcome in my yard, I love all different varieties of insects :)
Thank you for viewing it
These wasps also "love" all different varieties of insects :)
Nice work on this video, very informational. We get a couple of these each year in our garage in California. We keep them around to get rid of all the spiders.
They certainly keep the spiders down. Thank you for watching.
Around 12 minutes ago this flew into my room I caught and we now have a pet
Oh man I always thought they had stingers I'ma go touch one now
Be careful the female has a stinger, but only stings when threatened.
Lol.
Mud daubers do have stingers. Do not handle them lol
One got in my house and I picked her up and placed her outside. No harm done.
@@SumProject18 That takes nerve, but they really don't want to sting us, they do that as a last resort. Thank you for caring
Mud daubers are if not thee most dosile creatures, you can actually get pretty close. I was able to get super close to one that was collecting mud for its nest. I like them cause they kill a lot of spiders.
Just killed one that was at my window. Was curious so I did some research.
They are very interesting creatures. Fun to watch, Thank you for watching. Kevin.
Same
I’m an atheism but now I kind of doubt my believes . That is incredible
Been hearing some weird buzzing noises in my garage. Have found 3 tubes. One had 2 connected. But. Figured out what all the noise was (live in East TN we have black ones)
There's a website called iNaturalist that has biologists and photographers that can help you identify the wasp. Just upload some photos and the general location as well as some detail about the observation.
Live in east tn too and I see the same thing happening
I feel like I have seen a mud duaber in America
I was told they are everywhere in the South eastern United States.
I’m in NY...Just had one fly in my kitchen through the balcony door. I opened the door and he flew right out. I’ve seen them around here for years.
@@stevep5179 They are interesting creatures, and they don't sting unless provoked. Thank you for watching
Dont tell me they just learn all of this from no where. Allah have given them this sense of doing. Indeed there is no God except Allah Almighty.
If by allah u mean nature then yes
@@gort3969 what is nature for you?
@@momomalik2763 nature is god
Wow this video was really informative... I was actually wondering what was inside the mud dauber's nest which I have inside my room... Thanks for the video
They’re the only wasps I trust flying around my home lol
I really enjoy watching your videos! It shows people the friendlier side of insects while educating others. Thank you for making videos like these!
how much time does it takes to face to world?
Our Mud Daubers here (South Illinois) ain't as colorful as this, they are just black with yellow legs, No stripes on them like that. But they are just as gentile, They routinely fly into homes and fly about banging into walls and celings but never trying to sting anyone, I have 2 that have been living with me a while in doors now just banging around, I leave a small bottle cap full of honey for them to eat.
That's kind of you, They are quite friendly and don't often bite Thank you for watching. Kevin.
wow... wonderful...god is great.....❤️❤️❤️
Wow, amazing video! Well done, and thanks for sharing these incredible insights into their fascinating lives!
Glad you enjoyed it! It's time consuming and a whole lot of fun. Thank you.
I have a friendly mud dauber who just chills in the corner of my garage laundry room and I let him be… love the spider hunter
I used to leave her as she is very kind and a hard worker.. amazing wasps of a kind. Thank you sir. Love from India.
Amazing!! Our creator’s wisdom is immeasurably Wonderful! Praise the Lord
outstanding vid. I have seen these nesting and flying around my house since I was a child. I was always very wary of them as they look quite fearsome in flight. Now I don't feel so threatened. This was very interesting.
Absolutely agree about them looking fearsome in flight. Ever since I was a kid I’d seen them fly around and thought that they were terrifying as something that looks like a stinger (I don’t even know if it is) always points directly down and looks HUGE. But recently I’ve found a nest and it’s very docile.
Still don’t like European Wasps though, they’re jerks.
Yeah, we have several species of mud daubers here in the States, so we know what they can for us. What most people think is that they are threat, not what they can do for man. Thanks for your video!
I was gonna destroy a nest out of fear. Took a sharp pencil and poked it's nest. It was pretty strong. And then I was spooked by the wasp when she made an appearance. Slowly, I realized how hard working this mother was. So creative and so complex her nest. So, I left her to finish building and go. Once the babies hatch out, I will try to break the nest and keep it as a souvenir from nature.
What an excellent documentary. Thank you for taking the time to make such awesome content. Australia's version of Attenborough?
I think so
This was a very good video. Thankyou. 👍
I was sitting on my porch watching an organ pipe builder just now and found this video while trying to figure out how she was doing it! : ) solitary wasps deserve more love
Is there a way to move the nest? I have one on my front door screen and I don't want to kill it but I don't want it on my screen either....
This might help
ua-cam.com/video/o4dwrSLtICE/v-deo.html
Excellent information. Mine in California come to my bird bath for water. It’s pretty dry now, summer, so perhaps they mix up the mud elsewhere. Love the vibrating to liquify and work the mud. How many millions of years to evolve this way of life. I fear humans are doomed, we are too disconnected from nature. Thank you for your video.
Thank you, Ben for watching, and taking the time to comment.
Thanks for the education. I will be more mindful when I find these mud capsules throughout my shed.
I really admire the beauty of the mud dauber wasps.
I know this may sound pretty strange, but am I the only one that thought that larvae had a cute and contented look on it's face at 4:46 ? It was like "Aw yeah I just ate a shit ton of paralyzed spiders and now I'm going to lay back and chill!" 😅
Now i feel bad for killing dozens of them...
Sometimes we have to do these things, but where we can we need to study them but let them do their thing. Thank you for watching
My son was stung multiple times on his knee on christmas day, and now he is so scared of wasps its becoming a huge issue. This summer we have had so many wasps for some reason, they are even somehow getting inside, and I have found a mud wasp nest just outside my front door . I found it by watching where the wasp kept going back and forward to. Unfortunately I need to get rid of it. so my son doesnt have to see wasps everywhere. WHat is the best way to do this? thanks for the great video!
I would personally recommend you call a pest control and they can come check it out. Then if they find a nest they can remove it and you won't have to worry about your son or the wasps. It also may depend where you live, such as a warm location (Texas for example.) or a cold location (Michigan for example.) And it also depends on what type of house/apartment/condo you have. Hope I helped!
I have some massive dauber nests all over my garage..love the lil guys
Great video! excellent script, editing, and footage. I am looking forward to seeing more of your work
One of these guys made a nest on the rear side of a plastic chair in my room. It came every day and built tubes from mud next to the first tube. After building 7-8 of them she covered the top of those 7-8 tubes and made a semi-spherical shape from mud that covering the tubes which is a thing that I haven't seen from any other mud-dauber video on UA-cam. For example in this video, she builds the tubes and leaves the nest after the hatching time comes babies come out of the tip of the tubes.
How will the new bees come out of the tubes in my case? They will be have to overcome the additional spherical layer above their tubes.
Will she stop building more nests?
Should I remove the chair to the balcony?
Will she be able to find the nest in the balcony or will keep coming to my room to start building a new nest from zero?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
She might not find the nest if you move It, but If you need to, she will start somewhere else. The new Wasps will be able to chew their way out, nature makes sure of that. Thanks for watching it, Be careful not to study them too much, You will hooked, and spend all of your spare time watching them. HaHa.
@@queenslandbackyardbugsandb2761 Thanks for this informative answer. Yes, I'm already hooked though :-)
The nest she made on the little plastic chair is visible from my desk and whenever she comes to check the nest or comes with mud to repair something on the nest I stop doing my jobs and watch her hardworking character admiringly :-)
So nice video 👌🏻
So I went looking on Google to find out what type of alien bug made this mud type mess on my door. I was completely disgusted as I took my knife and broke down the dried mud, to see tiny spiders and 2 yellow "worms" as I thought they were. Now I know better BUT I didn't at the time. Holy smokes I was so grossed out. The tiny spiders, I knew they were alive bcuz they weren't dried out but they weren't moving. Anyways, I'm a nerd and like to know a little about everything so that's why I'm here.
Oh I forgot to mention the whole reason I found the dang thing in the first place was bcuz this wasp was flying around my front porch all around my while I'm having coffee. It landed on that mud thing and kept going bk and forth from this puddle of water, back to the mud thing. Anyways, I'm not proud to say that I "unalived" the wasp. Yes I'm a wasp killer. Sorry. I'm NOT, however, sorry that I opened that nasty thing up and killed the spider ... And yes the 2 little yellow "worms" as I thought they were. I unalived them ALL! ! ! NASTY!
I've got one building on the outside of my bathroom vent pipe. Took me ages to figure out what was going on, because all I heard was one wasp buzzing around periodically. I kept expecting more to show up. Now I've realized that the buzzing I've been hearing is the wasp working to distribute the mud evenly. Fascinating critters, I wish she was in a spot where I could watch her build! Thanks for the video ✨
They keep building nests in my window. The noise they make doing it makes me go insane. Its like someone using an old dental drill with mud stuck in it. I dont care if they are chill, they are so loud when building.
I love mud Daubers and Paper wasps! We have always allowed them in our garden, they are so acclimatized to us we can legit pick them up by hand and move them, and in 34 years never once have I been stung.They bite however when they get ticked off.
Such an educational video, thank you! We broke one just now because I was ignorant of what it was. We came here and saw the mud dauber, the nest, the larvae, all the paralyzed spiders, the cocoon...ill tell you that this was one of my favorite homeschool lessons! We will not be killing these again. Thank you!
Your video is incredible! Thank you for making this. I found 4 smaller, perfectly shaped circles. I couldn't help it, I needed to know! They were full of bright green worms and a larvae in each.
This is absolutely incredible. What’s even more incredible it’s how the new wasp knows what to do without any guidance.
Documentaries like this really help me with my fear of insects
And are super interesting too ;D
Very chill wasp. Only one I don’t feel a need to spray or kill on sight. They just grab sediment or whatever from my balcony and mind their business.
These wasps invented 3D printed homes millions of years ago before humans.
I saw one fly in my room and I was confused on what it was so I called it a needle bee, but I carried it back outside
Well done, thank you for watching
Did you just say you carried outside ? You carried a wasp ? That’s brave . LOL .
This is quite interesting to watch. I've never held wasps in very high regard... Until watching this video at least! I actually kind of have a fear of them, but I think this maybe helped a little bit! Thanks for this... great job on a really cool and interesting video.👍
Ellie Brinegar. Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for your comments. I enjoyed making it.
Im watching this because there’s a wasp building her nest in my shower..twice, for my own safety i get rid of the nest but the wasp keep coming back💆🏻♀️
Please help someone! There are other living creatures around me who fly, eat, build, reproduce, and God knows what else they do. Inability to live peacefully next to them. he built the small house several meters high, I could barely knock him down from there. And I have to repaint the whole wall. All I want is for my walls to be spotless and for these naughty living worms to perish who think they own the world.
i hate wasps but i love these guys, we have a great relationship, i watch them at a water spot usually 5 of them get mud and i be reeaallly close and we really just be chillin. this is coming from somebody who hates wasps and there intimidating demeanor
This is what we are, our existence is that of paralyzed horrible spiders, awaiting our fate in the mandibles of the horrid larvae.
I knocked down a mud capsule on my house earlier today. I noticed that there was a grub in it and a bunch of green spiders. Thanks for explaining all this to me I feel bad for knocking it down now!!!
Hi kona702, Thank you for watching my video, You can't imagine how much fun I get out of making them, sometimes they lose nests, we get careless. If you ever get the chance again, Observe her coming and going.
Nature is kind and forgiving
The coolest thing about mud daubers, is that they are actually very docile. They can sting, but it's pretty rare. I had one in my window and I was able to coax it outside without any problem.
I always try to leave these alone! Non aggressive!!
They kill spiders!? Good!
I hope they like Black-widows, brown recluse, funnel webb ,& banana spiders!!!
Because i definitely don’t!🤔😂
The nest is made up of earth (which does consists of germs/bacteria). And the nest is filled with dead spiders/small insects (when it start to decomposed it produced lot of bacteria) ... and the question is why didn't these bacteria harm the waspe's egg?
Anyone ?
We call them DIRT DUBBERS where I’m from! North Georgia!
I went for a smoke and heard this buzzing noise. Looked behind, and it was 5 mud cacoons and a wasp behind me above my balcony door. After watching this video, ill leave them alone. Do they leave after they hatch, or are they going to be staying around?
My God so much info!! Loved it 😁
You have a new sub my friend, good luck with your channel 🍀🤞🙏
*cocks shotgun* Don’t give shit...They killed my spiders...
I saw a dirt dauber for the first time in my life 2 months ago, she was building her mud nest, I was watching it everyday. I didn't know what was happening, but after a couple of days the wasp didn't return so I thought that she has died and her nest is half done. So I left the nest as it is for 2 months. But I was just curious about what was inside the nest so I broke it after 2 months and found a lot of spiders and a larva in it. Then I watched your video. Now, I am completely fucked up that I have broken their life cycle. But I got to learn a lesson that never interrupt the nature at any time, at any cost.😓
In 1996 in the Dominican Republic a Dauber Wasp was Blamed for Bringing Down a Commercial Jet Airliner..! It was said the jet sat for 25 days and the Wasp Built a nest in the Planes air Speed Detection Tube (pitot tube) wich was not covered and the nest blocked it causing a false reading when the jet was in flight causing the jet airliner too go into a Stall and then Crashed into the Ocean .
I grew up in Australia before moving to the UK. I remember being around 7 or 8 years old playing in a sandpit and one of these fly and landed next to me. I had been raining so there was excess water and I suppose it looked a bit like mud. I got the hell out of there. It's appearence makes it look dangerous.
I struck one of these nests, expecting for a bunch of wasps to explode out of it, but all that dropped out were these paralyzed spiders! I'm shocked.
I saved one of these fuckers out of the pool with my hand, he immediately dried his wings and then bit me, instead of stinging me. I guess it was it’s way of giving me a kiss lol
These are incredible creatures. I’ve had to clean up some old nests before, and have come across plenty of dead spiders doing so. Amazing the things that are happening in the eco system around your home that you aren’t even aware of.
How can anybody deny God exists after watching videos like this??
My girl: bae, do my waist look thin, yu kno i been wrkn out.
Me: just got done watching this "Educational, Transformational, Video." #TWICE! & seeing a wasp, with the thinnest waist, I have ever seen, too! I thought about my answer very carefully.
Me to my girl: bae, you the Queen 🐝.
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Sure tell that to the people og Bergenair 339... Oh wait you can't, they're dead because of this destructive creature.
Somehow, a blue dauber got into my condo. I was happily laying in bed and one flew out of the HVAC unit and flew around the house. I realized what it was but was forced to kill it as I had no safe way to capture it and I wasn't having that in small place for long. I'm assuming it came in via the hallway as I rarely open the patio and was attracted to the moisture of the air con.
Damn I feel bad now for knocking down its nest. I looked it up because like 10 spiders fell out of it. Now I feel soo bad. Humans truly do fear what we don’t understand :(