Mud Wasp

I started this post a while before we left to Germany so I guess I should finish it. These are nests for for a mud wasp. We found these all over our home in Donnelly and they are quite interesting. The pods are filled with larva young of the wasp and it is in a shell and then surrounded by paralyzed spiders (crab spiders) a type of jumping spiders so that when the young hatch they will have something to eat. I did some research and found these wasps so fascinating. They are not aggressive unless you are trying to kill them so they are not territorial like their stining cousins. Check out the pics I got off the internet of the nests.