Talk:Chalybion californicum

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Contrary to what I've read here on blue mud daubers, I have seen that, given a particularly muddy area, a blue mud dauber will fly about for some time in a careful "search". Then it will land on an area of mud, "scoop" up little balls of it, and fly away. After several minutes (I don't know, I was busy building a pond) the mud dauber will return. Why would a mud dauber gather mud if it just takes the homes of other wasps? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Predation
This calls them a primary predator of black widows, but I cannot find any images of a Blue Mud Dauber actually preying on widows—I've seen a few with other kinds of spiders, but no widows. Do they prey on a wide variety, or do they truly prey primarily on widows? The Jade Knight (talk) 04:07, 19 June 2018 (UTC)