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The '''blue mud dauber''' (''Chalybion californicum'') is a metallic blue species of ] wasp that is the primary predator of ]s.<ref name="tamu">{{cite web |url=http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/cimg334.html |title=Mud Daubers |publisher=] |year=1999 |work=Field Guide to Texas Insects |author=B. M. Drees & J. Jackman}}</ref> Females build their own nests, but occasionally refurbish nests abandoned by other mud dauber wasps, particularly Sceliphron.<ref name="BugGuide">{{cite web |url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/5458|}}</ref>: It is not normally aggressive.<ref name="tamu"/> It is similar in shape and colour to the steel-blue cricket hunter ('']''). Like other types of wasps, males do not have an ovipositor, therefore cannot sting. The '''blue mud dauber''' (''Chalybion californicum'') is a metallic blue species of ] wasp that is the primary predator of ]s.<ref name="tamu">{{cite web |url=http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/cimg334.html |title=Mud Daubers |publisher=] |year=1999 |work=Field Guide to Texas Insects |author=B. M. Drees & J. Jackman}}</ref> Females build their own nests, but occasionally refurbish nests abandoned by other mud dauber wasps, particularly Sceliphron.:<ref name="BugGuide">{{cite web |url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/5458|}}</ref> It is not normally aggressive.<ref name="tamu"/> It is similar in shape and colour to the steel-blue cricket hunter ('']''). Like other types of wasps, males do not have an ovipositor, therefore cannot sting.


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Chalybion californicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Sphecidae
Genus: Chalybion
Species: C. californicum
Binomial name
Chalybion californicum
(Saussure, 1867) 
Synonyms 
  • Pelopeus californicus Saussure, 1867
  • Sphex caeruleus Linnaeus, 1763
  • Sphex cyaneus Fabricius, 1775

The blue mud dauber (Chalybion californicum) is a metallic blue species of mud dauber wasp that is the primary predator of black widow spiders. Females build their own nests, but occasionally refurbish nests abandoned by other mud dauber wasps, particularly Sceliphron.: It is not normally aggressive. It is similar in shape and colour to the steel-blue cricket hunter (Chlorion aerarium). Like other types of wasps, males do not have an ovipositor, therefore cannot sting.

References

  1. ^ M. C. Day (1979). "The species of Hymenoptera described by Linnaeus in the genera Sphex, Chrysis, Vespa, Apis and Mutilla". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 12 (1): 45–84. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1979.tb00049.x.
  2. ^ B. M. Drees & J. Jackman (1999). "Mud Daubers". Field Guide to Texas Insects. Texas A&M University.
  3. http://bugguide.net/node/view/5458. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
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