Directory of Sphecidae Resources

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Family of wasps, including the giant ground hornets.

Resources in This Category

• Black & Yellow Mud Dauber

  http://crawford.tardigrade.net/bugs/BugofMonth22.html
  Article about mud-dauber wasps, Sceliphron caementarium, their nesting, predatory and sleep behavior.

• Black and Yellow Mud Dauber

  http://wiki.bugwood.org/HPIPM:Black_and_Yellow_Mud_Dauber
  Photographs, description, life history and habits of Sceliphron caementarium.

• BugwoodWiki: Hunting Wasp

  http://wiki.bugwood.org/HPIPM:Sphecidae_Vespidae
  Photographs and description of these insect predators in the family Sphecidae.

• Cicada Killer Wasp

  http://texasinsects.tamu.edu/cimg331.html
  From a Field Guide to Common Texas Insects, by Bastiaan Drees and John Jackman.

• Cicada Killer Wasp: Sphecius

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/cicada_killers.htm
  Description of this insect, its biology, and photographs and information on the two species that occur in Florida.

• Cicada Killer: Sphecius speciosus

  http://www.uark.edu/ua/arthmuse/cickiller.html
  Photographs and information on the natural history of this large wasp.

• Family Sphecidae: Mud-Daubers, Sand Wasps

  http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_wasps/SPHECIDAE.htm
  Photographs and information about some species found in the Brisbane area of Queensland, Australia.

• Larra analis and Larra bicolor

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/Larra_wasps.htm
  Provides photographs of these parasitoids of the mole cricket, with their description, distribution and life cycle.

• Leafhopper-hunting Wasp

  http://wiki.bugwood.org/HPIPM:Leafhopper-hunting_Wasp
  Photographs, description, life history and habits of Pseneo punctatus.

• Mud Daubers

  http://texasinsects.tamu.edu/cimg334.html
  Life cycle, habitat, and food sources of Chalybion, Sceliphron and other genera of this wasp.

• Organ-pipe Mud-dauber: Trypoxylon politum

  http://www.uark.edu/ua/arthmuse/muddaub.html
  Photographs and information on the natural history of this solitary wasp.

• Sceliphron sp: Mud Dauber Wasp

  http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Mud-Dauber-Wasp/Sceliphron%20/sp.html
  Several photographs and a description of a wasp in this genus.

• Sceliphron sp: Mud Daubers

  http://entoplp.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/muddaubers.htm
  Photograph of a wasp at its nest and information on its habitat, life cycle and description.

• Sphecidae

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecidae
  Information from Wikipedia on this family of thread-waisted wasps, with a photograph of Ammophila sabulosa.

• Sphecius speciosus: Cicada Killer

  http://entoplp.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/cicadakiller.htm
  Photographs of this wasp and information on its hosts, symptoms, life cycle and description.

 

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