Organ-pipe Mud-dauber Wasp
Trypoxylon politum
Summary 2
The organ pipe mud dauber (Trypoxylon politum) is a predatory wasp in the family Crabronidae. They are fairly large wasps, ranging from 3.9–5.1 mm, and have been recorded to fly from May to September. Female and male are similar in colour, a shiny black with pale yellow to white hind hindtarsomere. The organ pipe mud dauber feeds mainly on three genera of spider: Neoscona, Araneus, and Eustala. Melittobia, a parasitoid wasp, is a common ectoparasite of T....
Fuentes y créditos
- (c) Rob Curtis, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), subido por Rob Curtis
- (c) Wikipedia, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypoxylon_politum
