#3625 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp
🇳🇱 Zwartsteelzwaluwwesp ·Sceliphron caementarium
🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands (introduced)
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what is it?
Black and yellow mud dauber is a common name for the sphecid wasp species Sceliphron caementarium .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 2 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 49,534 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Dru Drury in 1773 (253 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp
- Nederlands
- Zwartsteelzwaluwwesp
- scientific name
- Sceliphron caementarium
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Sphecidae
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 2
- sightings in Europe
- 5,652
- sightings worldwide
- 49,534
- GBIF records in NL
- 28
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1773 by Dru Drury
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👀 62 in NL
#3591 📷 10Red-belted Sand Wasp
🇳🇱 Grote rupsendoder
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👀 37 in NL
#3616 📷 10Mexican Grass-carrying Wasp
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Isodontia mexicana
👀 27 in NL
#3619 📷 8Asian Mud-dauber Wasp
🇳🇱 Roodpootzwaluwwesp
Sceliphron curvatum
👀 19 in NL
#3654 📷 10Great Golden Digger Wasp
Sphex ichneumoneus
🌍 35.9k seen
#3660 📷 10Great Black Digger Wasp
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🌍 27.1k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 121821, Wikidata Q3951783, GBIF 5041466, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.