they sound like "Cicada Killers" - they hunt and kill cicadas place an
egg in their body and their "baby" feeds off the cicada. Can't recall
if the hornets kill them 1st or not...
I think they are called Japanese wasps or something....
check out -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius
Larry
On 8/10/2013 5:12 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
I went downtown to the West End today (D.C. neighborhood) and passed by a
raised garden sited between an apartment bldg. and the sidewalk, about 60'
long x 15' deep, with the sidewalk edge 3' above ground slanting upwards at
about a 30 degree angle to where it met the building. It was positively
SWARMING with large hornets, not around a nest but evenly distributed among
the green shrubbery!! These were the scary looking 1.5 inch ones with
unearthly ochre and black markings. What struck me was that they weren't
venturing out from this habitat and stinging passers by - fortunately. I
don't know what the attraction was, as I didn't see any obvious flowers and
in any case, aren't they carnivorous?? Would appreciate any insight from
all the entomologists out there.
Andrew, who is not scared of bees or mud daubers but fears hornets
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> wrote:
M. Mitchell Marmel wrote:
I got a couple mud daubers who have set up shop on my living room
window...
They love to fill the ground terminals in all the 120v outlets in my
garage.
Mitch.
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