Sighting 4628843
Formosum mud-dauber at Higgins, ACT
Identification history
| Sceliphron formosum | 17 Dec 2024 | SimoneC | ||
| Sceliphron laetum | 16 Dec 2024 | Jennybach |
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i was watering new plantings when the wasp rushed in and dived into the mud at my feet and proceeded to acrobatically immerse itself in the mud and gyrate around for a while.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.029206-35.228288
- Places Higgins, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 13 Dec 2024 04:19 PM Recorded on
- Jennybach Recorded by
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Collections
Sand or digger wasps (Crabronidae & Sphecidae) Wasps (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) Insects Jennybach Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Sceliphron formosum Scientific name
- Formosum mud-dauber Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 691.3m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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