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hblueeyes · 09-13-2009, 11:20 AM

Is huge and actually blue. My son found one in our basement by boxes of my moms stuff. It was over 2" long and scary looking. I hope we do not have a nest.

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pepperpot · 09-13-2009, 11:32 AM

I hope it was dead....

hblueeyes · 09-13-2009, 11:44 AM

No. He killed it. But in researching what it was, I fear it may have been stunned. I read stories where people thought they were dead but then after as long as 20 minutes came to and attacked. I need to ask him what he did with it when he gets up.

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ElleGee · 09-13-2009, 12:48 PM

We get the blue wasps (mud dauber) all the time here.. We don't have a nest but they seem to like our black eyed susans... They are really pretty

Quaker_Parrots · 09-13-2009, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by hblueeyes

Is huge and actually blue. My son found one in our basement by boxes of my moms stuff. It was over 2" long and scary looking. I hope we do not have a nest.

Me

Unless you have an unfinished basement, you have nothing to worry about as this species burrows in the ground to make their nests.

buglebe · 09-13-2009, 09:40 PM

Oh yes and it is wonderful when you are cutting the grass and run over their hole. I had nearly all my clothes stripped off by the time I hit the back door after running over one of them about 10 yrs ago. I don't cut grass anymore.

hblueeyes · 09-14-2009, 12:59 AM

Oh my! I had mowed the lawn on friday. Saw this wierd thing by the rose bush and wondered how the boys could have missed it. Then I saw some huge crickets. But I am sure if it was their nest I'd have been bombarded. Now to go look up what their nests look like.

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