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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Potter Wasp

Delta unguiculatum

About

A solitary wasp that constructs small urn-shaped mud nests on walls and branches. Each pot is provisioned with paralyzed caterpillars for a single larva.

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Did You Know?

Ancient Greek potters may have been inspired by these wasps' elegant mud vessels.