Sometimes nature just flies up and gets your attention. The wasp that flew up that day started sticking small round pieces of mud to the wall and then flew off. After a while it was clear that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I recently found and killed a yellow-and-black mud dauber wasp that was very docile because I didn't realize mud daubers are ...

The other day, while helping a friend work on his roof, I was amazed to find what almost appeared to be concrete filling the space around the metal chimney for his wood-burning stove. Several inches ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I take the darting and buzzing of flying insects in my garden almost for granted. I have a general idea of what is out there and what they are doing, and I ...

Of the more than 4,000 known species of wasps in California, two are known as mud daubers: Sceliphron caementarium (black-and-yellow mud dauber)and Chalybion californicum (blue mud dauber.) Mud ...

I take the darting and buzzing of flying insects in my garden almost for granted. I have a general idea of what is out there and what they are doing, and I am happy they are part of the summer ...