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3 2 Citrus Mealybugs or Planococcus citri -
6 Citrus mealybug or Planococcus citri -
4 Rose or Rosa sp. -
4 Rose or Rosa sp. -
5 Ten-linded June beetle or Polyphylla decemlineata -
6 Ponderosa Pine Bark Borer or Acanthocinus princeps -
5 Ponderosa Pine Bark Borer or Acanthocinus princeps -
4 Ground Beetle or Carabus vietinghoffii -
2 Hygroscopic Earthstar Astraeus hygrometricus -
2 Wheelers Thistle or Cirsium wheeleri -
2 Wheelers Thistle or Cirsium wheeleri -
3 Torrey's Craglily or Echeandia flavescens -
2 Arizona bird dropping moth or Ponometia elegantula -
3 Showy Holomelina moth or Virbia ostenta -
5 Ground beetle or Dinodes cruralis -
3 Flower beetle or Pygora sanguineomarginata -
3 Flower beetle or Pygora sanguineomarginata - Native to Madagascar -
5 Flower beetle or Pygora sanguineomarginata - Native to Madagascar -
4 Jewel Beetle or Polybothris sumptuosa sumptuosa ventral side -
3 Jewel Beetle or Polybothris sumptuosa sumptuosa -
![Potter Wasp nest Stuck on a leaf from an Ficus tree. single shot, 1.5X, f6.3
The most widely used building material is mud made of a mixture of soil and regurgitated water, but many species use chewed plant material, instead.
The name "potter wasp" derives from the shape of the mud nests built by species of Eumenes and similar genera. It is believed that Native Americans based their pottery designs upon the form of local potter wasp nests.[2]
When a cell is completed, the adult wasp usually collects beetle larvae, spiders, or caterpillars and, paralyzing them, places them in the cell to serve as food for a single wasp larva.
As a normal rule, the adult wasp lays a single egg in the empty cell before provisioning it. Some species lay the egg in the opening of the cell, suspended from a thread of dried fluid. When the wasp larva hatches, it drops and starts to feed upon the supplied prey for a few weeks before pupating. The complete lifecycle may last from a few weeks to more than a year from the egg until the adult emerges. Adults are black or brown, and usually marked with contrasting patterns of yellow, white, orange, red or combinations of colors. Adult potter wasps feed on floral nectar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter_wasp
Delta unguiculatum,Geotagged,Great potter wasp,Summer,United States](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/5803/137730_small.JPEG?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=C2%2FYnhptavki1MSWAOG4qGPMIZo%3D)
2 Potter Wasp nest -
3 Pleasing Fungus Beetle or Cypherotylus californicus -
4 Pleasing Fungus Beetle or Cypherotylus californicus -
4 Darkling Beetle or Eleodes obscuru
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