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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Common Potter Wasp

Eumenes fraternus

About

A North American potter wasp that builds small globular mud cells on plant stems and twigs. The female suspends her egg on a silk thread inside the pot before sealing it.

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Did You Know?

The egg is hung on a thread from the ceiling of the pot so the larva can begin eating the paralyzed caterpillars below without being crushed.