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Mark McCaughrean on Nostr: Today's garden killer – an Asian mud-dauber wasp (Sceliphron curvatum or ...

Today's garden killer – an Asian mud-dauber wasp (Sceliphron curvatum or Orientalische Mauerwespe in Germany) 🐝

They're solitary wasps which build small mud chambers & fill them with paralysed spiders to feed their larvae on. Yum 😬

Originally from sub-mountainous regions of the Himalayas & Karakoram, & first recorded in Austria in 1979. They've spread widely since in Europe.

Quickly snatched photos as the wasp was very busy đŸ€·â€â™‚ïž

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