opening of a clay nest of the Mud Dauber Wasp (Sphecidae): At first I thought parasites are involved; later I learned that after mating, each female builds a mud or clay nest with multiple cells and she fills each cell with about 20 immature spiders which have been paralyzed by her sting - in the larval stage these wasps feed on the paralyzed spiders.

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