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  8. Common Blue Mud-dauber Wasp

species 23,104 observations

Common Blue Mud-dauber Wasp

Chalybion californicum

Status
native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Supported by All

24 native plants
support it in the US
  • Food plants Plants it feeds on California Buckwheat 1
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits American Trumpet Vine, Partridge Pea, Flowering Spurge, Purple-stemmed Angelica 22
  • Shelter plants Plants it nests or roosts in Wedge Leaf Horkelia 1

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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