Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Most species utilize as nesting sites abandoned borings of other insects in twigs, stems or wood, or old mud-dauber nests. A few make burrows in soil for a nesting site; in at least one species a mud turret is constructed over the burrow entrance. Most species prey upon caterpillars, but two of the ground-nesting species use larvae of both Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
