Blue Mud Dauber

Blue Mud Dauber may look a bit intimidating but are gentle, like you have to work at it to make them mad. Blue Mud Daubers will collect water at the pond to soften a part of another wasp's nest, remove the egg and stuff it with spiders. They leave a egg in the last spider. They are solitary so the nest isn't too big and it is only for the eggs they lay. The eat spiders and anything else their size. They even have a reputation for success with Black Widows. This one did a great job of cleaning the window of spiders and webs before finaly departing. They take much of that that food back to the mud nest and leave it for when the eggs hatch. The Blue Mud Dauber will range in size range from a half to three quarters of an inch long.