What's the difference between a wasp and a dirtdauber?

Question

So there's a mud-looking patch with a hole by my back door, and the other day I saw what looked like a wasp fly into it, but my dad said it was a dirtdauber (if that's how you spell it). What's the difference between the two, because they both look the same.

Answer 1

a 'dirtddauber' is a wasp.  They will fly off and hunt for some unsuspecting prey (maybe a small catapiller) and will sting it and paralyze it.  They will then fly back to their little hole in the ground, jam the morsel down the tunnel, lays eggs inside the helpless bug, then bury it. In a few weeks the eggs will then hatch inside the burried bug, and eat it (YUMMY!).  hope that helps :)

Answer 2

A 'dirtdauber' (more commonly called a mud dauber) is a type of solitary wasp.  So really, it's both.

Answer 3

i think the wasp has wings and the dirtdauber dose not

Answer 4

http://www.chrisdoelle.com/archives/daub...

dirt dauber(doober)

http://nicksagan.blogs.com/nick_sagan_on...

wasp

1 lives in the ground & the other lives in a comb.

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Answer 5

It is a type of wasp.

A Dirt dauber also called a Mud dauber or dirt dobber, or dirt diver in the southern U.S.) is a name commonly applied to a number of wasps from either the family Sphecidae or Crabronidae that build their nests from mud.

Answer 6

i know what a wasp is.... i know nothing about dirtdauber

Answer 7

it says that they both look alike, but a wasp stings, while the other doesnt

Answer 8

nothing

Answer 9

Mud dauber (sometimes "dirt dauber," "dirt dobber," or "dirt diver" in the southern U.S.) is a name commonly applied to a number of wasps from either the family Sphecidae or Crabronidae that build their nests from mud. Mud dauber may refer to:

The organ pipe mud dauber, Trypoxylon politum (family Crabronidae)

The black and yellow mud dauber, Sceliphron caementarium (family Sphecidae)

The irridescent blue mud dauber, Chalybion californicum (family Sphecidae)

Mud daubers are long, slender wasps, the latter two species above with thread-like waists. The name of this wasp group comes from the nests that are made by the females, which consist of mud molded into place by the wasp's mandibles. There are three common species of mud daubers, each with distinctive coloring: the organ-pipe mud dauber (solid black coloring), the black and yellow mud dauber, and a stunning metallic-blue mud dauber with blue wings.

The organ-pipe mud dauber, as the name implies, builds nests in the shape of a cylindrical tube resembling an organ pipe or pan flute.

The black and yellow mud dauber's nest is composed of a series of cylindrical cells that are plastered over to form a smooth nest about the size of a lemon.

The metallic-blue mud dauber foregoes building a nest altogether and simply uses the abandoned nests of the other two species and preys primarily on black widow spiders.

Mud daubers are rarely aggressive.

Mud daubers pose a special risk to aircraft operation, as they are prone to nest in the small openings and tubes that comprise aircraft pitot-static systems. Their presence in these systems can disable or impair the function of the airspeed indicator, the altimeter, and/or the vertical speed indicator. It is thought that mud dauber wasps were ultimately responsible for the

Answer 10

dirtdaubers don't sting although they look like they could & wasps do sting.