Mud Nest Tenant Wasp - ? Pison sp.
Family Crabronidae
This page contains pictures and information about Mud Nest Tenant Wasps that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 15mm
- This wasp is in tribe Trypoxylonini and has the typical emarginated eyes.
Collecting Mud
- Dec 2008, Karawatha Forest. It seemed collecting mud for mud-cells.
- Mar 2011, Carbrook Wetland, collecting mud by making a mud-ball.
Mud Nest Tenant
- On Oct 2006, we collected one mud cell, from the structure, we believed it
was belonged to the Mud-Dauber Wasp. We carefully open the cell from the back side. To my
surprise, there were two compartments inside, as shown in the following picture. There was one larva in each compartment. No insect or spider remains can be found. I thought
Mud-Dauber Wasp cell has only one
compartment.
- Weeks later (15 Nov 2006) the larvae had turned into pupa, will keep look at them as see what will come out.
- Graeme Cocks has recorded two Ichneumon wasps came out from a S. formosum mud cell, which the cell was also two compartmented.
- Only one larva turned into pupa. The other did not turn into pupa. We might have damaged it when we open the mud cell.
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- On 5 Dec 2006, one wasp came out.....................................we checked the reference information and believed this wasp re-uses the empty cell of the Mud-Dauber Wasp to build its own nest cells.
Capturing Prey
- Pictures taken in Alexandra Hill on Oct 2010.
- Found and examining the Leaf Rolling Spider nest.
- Attacking the spider.
- Keep frighting...................
- Got it!!
- Carrying home.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 991.
- 2. Northern Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
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